Can Graphite (whisper) metrics be aliased?

vegan_vicky

There is a function named alias, that I tried as given below http://myhost:80/render?target=alias(my.src.metrics.endTime,"my.target.metrics.success_endTime") But I want to create my.target.metrics.success_endTime persistent in the graphite for my.src.metrics.endTime . so that new values under the my.src... are also available via my.target... .

Originally asked by Ravindra on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

However, you can't configure persistent aliases in graphite's UI (webapp), you may create symbolic link on the filesystem, that will behave like an alias ./graphite/whisper/my$ ll drwxr-xr-x 6 graphite graphite 4096 Dec 28 2016 src/ ./graphite/whisper/my$ ln -s src target ./graphite/whisper/my$ ll drwxr-xr-x 6 graphite graphite 4096 Dec 28 2016 src/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 28 2016 target -> src/ Path my.target.* will be findable. Other soltuion is to use different front/dashboard UI like Grafana and make use of variables - http://docs.grafana.org/reference/templating/

Full answer by kwarunek: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/41364521 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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