Florian Forster

Results 31 issues of Florian Forster

Occasionally the buffer contains garbage, which breaks the parsing. Fixes: #2

Coming out of the collectd contributor meetup: the README file should be more useful. Listing all plugins is likely not useful, likewise for dependencies. Instead, if should have more general...

documentation
good first issue

This is a tracking issue for migrating the *write_prometheus plugin* to *collectd 6*. Progress is tracked in the [collectd 6 project](https://github.com/orgs/collectd/projects/1). Technical guidance for migrating plugins to *collectd 6* is provided...

help wanted

#696 requests a native **write_influxdb plugin** and #1319 proposes such a plugin, but needs to be simplified before it can be merged. Since there clearly is interest in such a...

Feature request

This new function does a sanity check on a `ValueList`, e.g. checking that the Host field is set and that the number of values and DS names match. In particular,...

enhancement

The `"config".Unmarshaler` interface can be used to implement unmarshaling behavior that differs from the default. That can be used to support some recurring needs: * A `type Port uint16` that...

feature request

Similar to `encoding/json` and other packages, it would be nice to use struct field tags to control the unmarshalling behavior. For example: * Write block values (arguments of config blocks)...

feature request

Add a wrapper for `PositionalArgs` that supplements errors with usage information. The error messages provided by the `PositionalArgs` functions is quite terse, e.g. > accepts *n* arg(s), received *m* In...

> * [x] Add a feature to `utils/resource_metrics/` allowing us to specify whether a new instance of a `metric_t` should be added to the metric family (current behavior, geared towards...

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