Minutes from 2020 06 12

Attendees: Nikolay, Ashley, Dago, sunku, Jabir

New Meeting time

To make it easy for everyone looking to participate, based on further feedback, the meeting is now being moved to Mondays
Starting June 22nd, this call will be every alternate monday at 2PM UTC/7AM PST
The login mechanism will still be via Webex
Sunku to send out new meeting invite

Need Octo to create the repo
We could continue to use MIT license
Nikolay to check with colleagues on licensing and open source their internal plugins
- While some are specific there are few generic plugins that they could contribute
Good way to organize:
- CERN internally build python plugins as packages, like rpms of plugins, and distribute them
- Plugins in the python-plugin repo could be in folder with plugin files and include a readme
- We could have spec files for building them in the folder
One drawback noticed that if we have many python plugins enabled, all plugins run in single thread and they are executed in order, there might be some delays.
- Noticed that metrics come in 30-40 seconds of delay. If one plugin takes 30sec for delay all other plugins are delayed

Hoping to get more info from Octo
Implemented all key functions in Go - login, config, shutdown, etc. with goal to have feature parity of Collectd in C
Go-collectd now can load config file from common collectd and it will try unmarshall values from there
- We could also configure it per plugin file
- Ashley is open to update the documentation, will check with Octo
Some of the features to be worked on include:
- Flush/notification callbacks - double checks
- Meta package -> Octo has been working on it
- Sunku to publish a google doc with a list of features to be done & ones already completed to help anyone volunteer the contributions
To consume a library is written in C, might write small amount of C code to wrap C functions and consume in Go plugin
Testing of go-collectd framework
- Go's standard testing methodology is to use Go standard library (stdlib package), its picked up by Go tools and run tests. These tests are basic but standard across ecosystem
- check https://golang.org/pkg/testing/
- Right now Travis is configured for go framework
- Need to check test coverage
- Travis will run tests across go-collectd framework and provide results

De-duplicate received network packets #77
- Its a good to have feature, however no activity since 2012
- Added a comment to see if anyone is still interested
- Added waiting for response - 1st time label
Implement a TCP response time measurement module #123
- The plugin has already been contributed by makefu
- Added a comment for the author to move the python plugin to python plugin repo, once created
filecount: User filter #163
- No activity for many years
- Original requester responded mentioning not interested anymore
- Closed the issue
support multiple instances of same plugin #183
- The type of aggregation mentioned is usually done by time series database
- Popular TSDB used are Influxdb, Prometheus, already does this
- Replied asking if this is still relevant/required
- Added waiting for response - 1st time label