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The suggested Abstraction Layer requires an extension to the collectd internal protocol to allow for plugins to be dynamically added/removed.


Overview

The idea behind this wiki is to look at the use cases for an Agent REST API, in this case collectd, to help define and implement a REST API that will allow us to dynamically do the following with collectd:

* Enable/disable/or restart resource monitoring 

* Get values/notifications

* Get capabilities

* Get the list of metrics being collected

* Flush the list of metrics

* Set thresholds for resources

* Blacklist resources

* Support some sort of buffering mechanism, and should be able to configure

* Get the timing information for the agent and do aTiming sync if required.


Phase 1 in the diagram below represents the current collectd implementation. Phase 2 is what we want to enable.



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Usecases

Enable Plugin


Disable Plugin

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