graphite vs collectd. retentions not applied

plumb_pete

I have installed collectd on BIND9 hosts and configured it to pass metrics to graphite. I want to be able to view metrics for at least 1 month but retentions in storage-schema.conf not applied for collectd section, and applied last default section that stores only last 24h metrics. I understand that I need to set correct retentions regex to match metrics but it is seems to me that is correct already but it does not work :( My...

Originally asked by 0xDEAD BEEF on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Did you happen to configure the regexes in storage-schemas.conf after the .wsp files were created? If so you have to resize the existing .wsp files manually. You can do this with the whisper-resize utility included in the whisper package (or just delete the files and let carbon recreate them). storage-schemas.conf is only applied when creating a new .wsp file.

Full answer by Popieluch: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/44310264 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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