curl_json plugin: Renamed the “couchdb” plugin to “curl_json”.

curl_json plugin: Renamed the “couchdb” plugin to “curl_json”.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:31:22AM -0700, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> Wanted to bring this up before 4.8..
> When I first started on the couchdb plugin, there were metrics
> specific to couchdb, but ended up making it generic and the metrics
> are all specified in the config.  Since then, I've looked at Dynomite
> which has its own set of metrics exposed the same way:
> http://gist.github.com/137771
> Also noticed Hadoop 0.21 daemons now support: "/metrics?format=json to
> retrieve the data in a structured form.", but haven't had a chance to
> try yet.  I'm sure there's more too.  So I'm wondering if 'couchdb'
> should be renamed to something more generic, 'json' or 'yajl'  maybe?
> And/or pushing the curl/yajl code out to util functions, then add the
> couchdb specific metrics to the couchdb plugin.  Then also use the
> util functions for dynomite, hadoop, etc., specific plugins. Thoughts?