Partial text with filtering/templating

[ehammerv]

What i would like to do is have some text along with a filter in the graphite target
Example targets:
apps.foo.bar.HEAD.data.continuous_HEAD.summary
apps.foo.bar.B1.data.continuous_B1.summary
Then inside the template have a [[Branch]] filter with values from apps.foo.bar.*
Giving us the data values [HEAD,B1] to select
Then create a target value of:
apps.foo.bar.[[Branch]].data.continuous_[[Branch]].summary
allowing for a text and a filter on the same level, current system doesn't support this.

[torkelo]

You are right, it does not currently support this scenario :(

You might be able to get it to work if you disable the query editor (click the pen icon) and type in the graphite expression using the text box. It might confuse the graphite expression parser, but should still work.

[asyd]

+1

I also need this feature to select item only when sub metric exists (like servers.*.jmx.*, where I want to catch the list of servers where they are imx metrics)

[torkelo]

@ehammerv what you specify should be possible. Just switch to graphite text box editor and enter
apps.foo.bar.[[Branch]].data.continuous_[[Branch]].summary