Thread Maximum metric name length

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Maximum metric name length

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rhager Jun 20, 2016 5:28 AM   

Hi,

I would like to know what is the maximum length for metric name ?

Sometime my metric are cut and it always cut at 89th character.

Is it possible to increase this length ?

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  Re: Maximum metric name length

  

       vasily@wavefront.com     Jun 20, 2016 7:01 AM  (in response to rhager)      

Hi Renaud,

The maximum metric name length allowed in Wavefront is 1024 characters (as specified in Wavefront Data Format), and we believe the metric name truncation occurs at an earlier stage. Do you have any metric aggregators/collectors in front of the Wavefront proxy that may have contributed to this issue?

-Vasily

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  Re: Maximum metric name length

    

       rhager     Jun 20, 2016 7:17 AM  (in response to vasily@wavefront.com)   

Thank you for your reply.

Metrics are sent from collectd to the wavefront forwarder and to waveproxy.

Seems to be that metrics name is correctly sent by collectd, I'll have a look on wavefront forwarder.

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Apparently this limitation is due to collectd itself.

Statsd + Network: instance type is truncate · Issue #872 · collectd/collectd · GitHub