change "default" retention policy to ""

closes #1374

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 - [#1336](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1336): Fixed incorrect prometheus metrics source selection.
 - [#1112](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1112): Set default Zookeeper chroot to empty string.
 - [#1335](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1335): Fix overall ping timeout to be calculated based on per-ping timeout.
+- [#1374](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1374): Change "default" retention policy to "".
 
 ## v1.0 beta 1 [2016-06-07]
 

etc/telegraf.conf

@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@
   ## The target database for metrics (telegraf will create it if not exists).
   database = "telegraf" # required
 
-  ## Retention policy to write to.
-  retention_policy = "default"
+  ## Retention policy to write to. Empty string writes to the default rp.
+  retention_policy = ""
   ## Write consistency (clusters only), can be: "any", "one", "quorom", "all"
   write_consistency = "any"
 

plugins/outputs/influxdb/influxdb.go

@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ var sampleConfig = `
   ## The target database for metrics (telegraf will create it if not exists).
   database = "telegraf" # required
 
-  ## Retention policy to write to.
-  retention_policy = "default"
+  ## Retention policy to write to. Empty string writes to the default rp.
+  retention_policy = ""
   ## Write consistency (clusters only), can be: "any", "one", "quorom", "all"
   write_consistency = "any"