Awesome, thanks for the insight, Florian! I suggest to mark the collectd_exporter then, and move it into our junkyard organization after a while of nobody complaining. I'll send a PR for that.
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 9:36 PM Florian Forster <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Julius, hi Harald, hi lists, > > I'm not aware of anything that the collectd_exporter does that the > "write_prometheus" plugin doesn't support – and I'm happy to get the > plugin to feature parity if anything comes up. > > When switching to the plugin, a collectd_exporter that is running > alongside collectd (like a sidecar or some such) can be removed. A > collectd_exporter that is running centrally (many collectd's, one > exporter) can be replaced by a collectd or Prometheus instance. Either > way, the overall complexity of the setup is reduced. (*) > > Hope this helps :) > Best regards, > —octo > > (*) In theory. I'm not operating such a setup myself. > > On 2020-05-10 13:22, Julius Volz wrote: > > That's a good question - googling I found > > https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_Prometheus, which > > says: > > > > "This plugin is similar in scope to the collectd_exporter written by > > the Prometheus team and uses the same naming schema so it can be used > > as a drop-in alternative." > > > > So maybe we could indeed deprecate the Collectd Exporter. I'm just not > > familiar enough with Collectd to say for sure if the exporter is doing > > anything important over that plugin. > > > > +cc Florian Forster, who was involved in both - maybe you can provide > > more insight? > > > > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 5:59 PM Harald Koch <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> On Sat, May 9, 2020, at 04:23, Ben Kochie wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, May 8, 2020, 16:10 Julius Volz <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> By some historic accident I became the maintainer of the collectd > >> exporter (https://github.com/prometheus/collectd_exporter), although > >> I have never used collectd myself and know very little about it. > >> This has led to some neglect from my side... > >> > >> Does anyone feel invested in collectd and feels qualified to > >> maintain it? > > > > Collectd has a built-in prometheus exporter, so I don't know if this > > is still necessary? > > > > -- > > > > Harald > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Prometheus Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/5f06967f-7ed0-4410-a60c-1df6175736ea%40www.fastmail.com > > [1]. > > > > > > Links: > > ------ > > [1] > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/5f06967f-7ed0-4410-a60c-1df6175736ea%40www.fastmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > > -- > Florian octo Forster > Hacker in training > GnuPG: 0x0C705A15 > http://octo.it/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/0308385b38dfe2e30e18f8f95bbe8af2%40octo.it > . > -- Julius Volz PromLabs - promlabs.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CAObpH5xa3S%3DszC9UU337M4%2BDOatmxRmnvYkgrFYHcsNQYbHBYA%40mail.gmail.com.
