How to get listing of all available paths

I'm not aware of a way to get a list of that data directly out of the UI or from a URL request.

Unless Chris tells me I'm wrong, doing a find on the /opt/graphite/storage/whisper directory is the way I'd go.

-Nick

On May 11, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Andrew Feller <email address hidden> wrote:

> New question #157047 on Graphite:
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> I want to dynamically build graphs but didn't want to keep multiple applications in sync with the paths used, so I am hoping there is some way to poll graphite for all available paths.
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You could walk the tree like the UI does. Start at something like
    curl "http://localhost:8000/metrics/find/?query=*&format=treejson"
which will return json and you can then walk through all the leafs of the children.

It does seem like it'd be a nice improvement to add something to recurse and return the entire tree.

I will give what Jeremy said a try, but it would be nice for the an api point with graphite / carbon directly rather than relying upon the website being available. I can see two people wanting either 1) tree or 2) list of paths that contain points.

I am curious how others have handled dynamic paths such as a new server coming to track or events tied to a specific thing.

Would y'all consider the following path to /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite/metrics/views.py:

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< elif format == 'depth':
< result = {
< 'results': sorted(depth_nodes(store, matches))
< }
< response = HttpResponse(json.dumps(result), mimetype='text/json')
< response['Pragma'] = 'no-cache'
< response['Cache-Control'] = 'no-cache'
< return response
<
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< def depth_nodes(store, nodes):
< "Provide depth listing of leaf nodes"
< results = set()
< for n in nodes:
< if n.isLeaf():
< results.add(n.metric_path)
<
< else:
< results.update(depth_nodes(store, store.find( n.metric_path + '.*')))
<
< return results
<
<

This simply returns a listing of all leaf nodes within the matching nodes. Sorry but this is my first time writing Python, so please clean up as needed.

Bah, I have a patch file but no way to attach here.