dom/telegraf
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Releases Wiki Activity

add option to randomize Kinesis partition key (#2705)

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Nevins
2017-04-26 13:54:24 -04:00
committed by Daniel Nelson
parent 9b874dff8d
commit c66e2896c6
4 changed files with 25 additions and 5 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

5
plugins/outputs/kinesis/README.md
View File

@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ This is used to group data within a stream. Currently this plugin only supports
Manually configuring different hosts, or groups of hosts with manually selected partitionkeys might be a workable
solution to scale out.
### use_random_partitionkey
When true a random UUID will be generated and used as the partitionkey when sending data to Kinesis. This allows data to evenly spread across multiple shards in the stream. Due to using a random paritionKey there can be no guarantee of ordering when consuming the data off the shards.
If true then the partitionkey option will be ignored.
### format
The format configuration value has been designated to allow people to change the format of the Point as written to