Actually, I have discovered a workaround. when creating the task, I can use the
following JSON:
"dbrps": [
{
"db": "my_db",
"rp": ""
}
],
instead of
"dbrps": [
{
"db": "my_db",
"rp": "autogen"
}
],
which I was using before.
But I still think this inconsistency should be fixed.
On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 12:51:48 PM UTC-5, [email protected]
wrote:
> We are using the TICK stack with the InfluxDb relay according to the diagram
> at https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-relay#description
>
> We decided the cleanest way to configure kapacitor would be to have the
> relays forward data to it directly, rather than having kapacitor subscribe to
> one of the replicas or subscribe to a load balancer representing the
> replicas.
>
> We were able to configure that, but we hit a snag. When data is ingested by
> influxdb, if no retention policy is specified, influxdb will automatically
> put it in the "autogen" retention policy. However, it appears that when data
> is forwarded to Kapacitor, it won't show up in a StreamNode unless it has a
> retention policy specified. This really threw me for a loop and I had no
> idea what was going on until I stumbled across the following thread on this
> mailing list:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/influxdb/kapacitor$20write$20|sort:relevance/influxdb/mnomTKVUK98/fYnMoP3sCgAJ
>
> In my opinion either InfluxDb should require a retention policy to be
> specified like Kapacitor does, or Kapacitor should automatically shovel
> metrics with null retention policies into one called autogen just like
> InfluxDb.
>
> For now we will probably have to configure Kapacitor to listen to one of the
> InfluxDb replicas since we can't update every single one of our Telegraf
> instances just to get around this inconsistency.
>
> Forest
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