thats not usually critical.

> Use caution.  This single box with all the gmonds is now a single point of 
> failure for all your clusters.  Any problems with this box mean you'll lose 
> metrics from all your clusters.


Not if you're running in EC2, you can't have a head node when they are
going up and down all the time.

> In fact, I think it's better to configure several head nodes, so if one does 
> go down gmetad can switch over to a secondary data source and you will still 
> be able to get metrics from your cluster.

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