How to insert data in OpenTSDB (Time Series Database)

Question

I'm new to OpenTSDB. I somehow managed to install and configure OpenTSDB, but I don't know how to put data into OpenTSDB from client. Can anyone of you help me?

Answer 1

Have you read the getting started guide

You have several options. Once started, and metrics created via ./tsdb mkmetric mymetric.data_1 mymetric.data_2 , you can batch import files written in the form

metric_name timestamp value tags e.g.

mymetric.data_1 1295643636 48 a=foo

then you can ./tsdb import file

An other way is to "telnet" commands to the server in the same form as above, but with the put keyword, like echo "put mymetric.data_1 1295643636 48 a=foo" | nc -w 15 tsdHost tsdPort (linux way :-) )