Hi Paul, This is a great idea. My advice is start simple and add functionality as needed over time. If you want an easy reusable legal template for protocols, see the rfc.zeromq.org site.
-Pieter On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Paul Colomiets <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Every time I develop something using zeromq or libxs I come up with a > problem of how to report statistics. Pub/Sub pattern is suited for > statistics reporting very well, but the format of messages is unclear. > The result is ugly and diverse solutions for reporting real-time > statistics. > > I think the community would benefit from having common format for > reporting statistics, so that all open-source software could use the > format. And various plugins can be developed for existing statistics > and monitoring systems. > > > The protocol should meet the following requirements: > > 1. Simple compact format. Probably textual or fixed-size binary. It > should be easy to craft messages without any dependencies. > > 2. Each message should bring compact representation of the type > information in itself (so that centralized system doesn't need to be > reconfigured for each new reported value and each software upgrade on > remote system) > > 3. Subscriber should be able to filter statistics data by pub/sub > subscriptions > > 4. There should be solution to collect that statistics (draw graphs, etc.) > > > So I have the following questions: > > 1. What formats are available to (re)use? > > 2. What protocols and software do you use for your projects? > > 3. Would you like to participate in standardization of the protocol? > > > > At our company we use collectd. And as zeromq plugin is not in the > mainstream for collectd, and it has complex binary format, we report > using some custom formats and a special application that translates > that into collectd protocol for unix sockets (which in turn nice > textual protocol). Same is done in zerogw (see zerogwstat utility). > This kind of proxying, and the point #2 from the requirements makes me > incomfortable. > > -- > Paul > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
