TCollector
TCollector
tcollector is a client-side process that gathers data from local collectors and pushes the data to OpenTSDB. You run it on all your hosts, and it does the work of sending each host's data to the TSD.
OpenTSDB is designed to make it easy to collect and write data to it. It has a simple protocol, simple enough for even a shell script to start sending data. However, to do so reliably and consistently is a bit harder. What do you do when your TSD server is down? How do you make sure your collectors stay running? This is where tcollector comes in.
Tcollector does several things for you:
- Runs all of your data collectors and gathers their data
- Does all of the connection management work of sending data to the TSD
- You don't have to embed all of this code in every collector you w
