From 7b550c11cb2aee6ec91bce50c32ebff41e25a737 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kostas Botsas <kostas@influxdb.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:06:00 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation for load balancing on graphite output servers
(#1469)
* Added documentation for load balancing on graphite output servers
* clarifications
* updates1
* updates2
* updates3
---
etc/telegraf.conf | 2 ++
plugins/outputs/graphite/README.md | 2 ++
plugins/outputs/graphite/graphite.go | 2 ++
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/etc/telegraf.conf b/etc/telegraf.conf
index c9011536..10e94930 100644
--- a/etc/telegraf.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf.conf
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@
# # Configuration for Graphite server to send metrics to
# [[outputs.graphite]]
# ## TCP endpoint for your graphite instance.
+# ## If multiple endpoints are configured, the output will be load balanced.
+# ## Only one of the endpoints will be written to with each iteration.
# servers = ["localhost:2003"]
# ## Prefix metrics name
# prefix = ""
diff --git a/plugins/outputs/graphite/README.md b/plugins/outputs/graphite/README.md
index 2de699de..3e2369e2 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/graphite/README.md
+++ b/plugins/outputs/graphite/README.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ via raw TCP.
# Configuration for Graphite server to send metrics to
[[outputs.graphite]]
## TCP endpoint for your graphite instance.
+ ## If multiple endpoints are configured, the output will be load balanced.
+ ## Only one of the endpoints will be written to with each iteration.
servers = ["localhost:2003"]
## Prefix metrics name
prefix = ""
diff --git a/plugins/outputs/graphite/graphite.go b/plugins/outputs/graphite/graphite.go
index 30aee0eb..4e127ed7 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/graphite/graphite.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/graphite/graphite.go
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ type Graphite struct {
var sampleConfig = `
## TCP endpoint for your graphite instance.
+ ## If multiple endpoints are configured, output will be load balanced.
+ ## Only one of the endpoints will be written to with each iteration.
servers = ["localhost:2003"]
## Prefix metrics name
prefix = ""
--
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