The problem we are trying to resolve is that today we don't have a transparent way of mapping from one telemetry framework data sets to other telemetry framework data sets. There is a multitude of write plugins that normalize data from one set to the other, resulting in clunky framework specific write plugins. We'd like to leverage a common description language to establish a mapping from one data set to another. Then use a write plugin (that doesn't do normalization) to submit the information to the relevant end point (unfortunately there still might need to be specific write plugins for authentication with the relevant end point).
The description language of choice is JSON.
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