InfluxDB support for jmxtrans-agent - feedback needed

[Kristoffer Erlandsson]

Hi all,

I have implemented an experimental InfluxDB output writer in jmxtrans-agent. However, I am quite new to InfluxDB and would appreciate if someone who is more experienced with InfluxDB could take a look at it before we merge. Questions I have are:

* Have I missed to support something obvious?

* Now there is only support for one field per series - supporting more is complex with how jmxtrans-agent is structured currently. Is this OK or is it too limited? If support for multiple fields is needed, I would need feedback how that should work and what the use cases look like.

* Does the configuration format make sense? It is now similar to the line format expected by the Influx API.

* If someone can try it out I would be very grateful!

Any other feedback is welcome as well.

My fork where you can build the changes or read the updated readme:

https://github.com/AvanzaBank/jmxtrans-agent/tree/influx-writer 

Pull request here:

https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans-agent/pull/79