0.0.6

0.0.6

Released: November 21, 2019

• [bug] The "pid" value that is collected by the client plugin and passed to the
  aggregator in order to disambiguate separate processes is now augmented
  by a six character random hex string, so that a single host that may have
  the same pid repeated, such as when process namespaces or containers are
  used, sends correct statistics for the same program name configuration.

  References: #9

• [feature] Made large improvements to the connmon display, including a help screen,
  switching between program / host stats, and new stats views. Overall, as
  connmon is attempting to collect from collectd servers which may also be in
  a network of servers, the "interval" by which messages are received may be
  long, ten seconds by default and much more. To allow a console view to be
  meaningful, new stats are added that illustrate how many connects /
  checkouts have occurred over the last "interval". That way, even though
  you might never see the current number of "checkouts" go above zero, you
  can at least see that the last ten second interval had 25 checkouts occur.
  The checkouts per second number can be derived from other values shown in
  the display.

• [bug] Fixed bug where the command line options to connmon didn't work due to
  incorrect argument signature for the main() function.

  References: #7

• [bug] The "connmon" tool can now display stats for SQLAlchemy stats that are sent
  to a collectd server via the "network" plugin or through any other means.
  Previously, the connmon tool could only display stats for messages that
  were sent to a the collectd server by the SQLAlchemy-collectd plugin
  itself.

  The server side configuration for "connmon" is now separate from that of
  the SQLAlchemy-collectd plugin, and the two plugins can run independently
  of each other. This allows for a configuration where many hosts send
  SQLAlchemy-collectd messages to local collectd servers for aggregation, and
  those servers then pass their messages onto another collectd server, where
  the "connmon" tool can provide a view inside the current stats.

  In order to achieve this, major refactoring such that the internals now
  deal with data in terms of a structure which mirrors the collectd-python
  "Values" object is in place, along with a rearchitecture of the connmon
  tool such that it now consumes collectd "Values" objects from a particular
  collectd server regardless of how those "Values" arrived in that server.

  References: #8