natsReceiver.go: Receives metrics from the Nats transport system in Influx line protocol encoding. The database name is used as subscription subject for the NATS messages. It uses https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go

Installation

Nothing to do, all receivers are pure Go code

Receiver configuration

  "receiver": {
    "type": "nats",
    "address": "nats://my-url"
    "port" : "4222",
    "database": "testcluster"
  },

`nats`

The receiver connects to address and port and subscribes itself for all messages with topic database. The default port is 4222.

Contributing own receivers

A receiver contains three functions and is derived from the type Receiver (in metricReceiver.go):

Init(config ReceiverConfig) error
Start() error
Close()

The data structures should be set up in Init() like opening a file or server connection. The Start() function should either start a go routine or issue some other asynchronous mechanism for receiving metrics. The Close() function should tear down anything created in Init().

Finally, the receiver needs to be registered in the metric-collector.go. There is a list of receivers called Receivers which is a map (string -> pointer to receiver). Add a new entry with a descriptive name and the new receiver.