From: Wojtek Bocer <wojtek.bocer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:16:46 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add remark about length of HostnameFormat string in virt plugin
X-Git-Tag: collectd-5.5.1~77
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9dcc5ed7899022e170fc86e661f619fa9acdd8cf;p=collectd.git

Add remark about length of HostnameFormat string in virt plugin
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diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index 9ec3a208..019461ab 100644
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -6976,6 +6976,10 @@ You can also specify combinations of these fields. For example B<name uuid>
 means to concatenate the guest name and UUID (with a literal colon character
 between, thus I<"foo:1234-1234-1234-1234">).
 
+At the moment of writing (collectd-5.5), hostname string is limited to 62
+characters. In case when combination of fields exceeds 62 characters,
+hostname will be truncated without a warning.
+
 =item B<InterfaceFormat> B<name>|B<address>
 
 When the virt plugin logs interface data, it sets the name of the collected