Re: [collectd] write_http behaviour on POST failure?

2013-12-12 Thread Marc Fournier
Hello, Excerpts from Otis Gospodnetic's message of 2013-12-12 04:41:46 +0100: Hi, What does https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_HTTP do when the destination (there data is being POSTed) is either not up or returns a non-200 or times out or ... ? Is the data dropped and lost?

Re: [collectd] write_http behaviour on POST failure?

2013-12-12 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Thanks Mark! Would it make sense to improve that plugin and let it fall-back to writing to disk, say by using one of the csv output plugins, in case of failure? Even if nothing in Collectd itself is able to pick up that data and re-send it at a later time, it would allow others to put things like