Graphana UI shows different things with different versions

[scaleoutsean]

I changed several things at once (not a good idea). so it took me several hours to narrow this down a bit - it seems that a recent vsphere-graphite container works differently compared to 1-2 months ago.

cblomart/vsphere-graphite:eaa6a13 results in no VMs but different things appearing in VM drop-down list.

cblomart/vsphere-graphite:50ab88b works fine.

I used the two versions above with graphiteapp/graphite-statsd:1.1.5-7 for graphite-statsd (which is the second major change in this case, as previously I used graphite-statsd v0.8.0). My vSphere/ESXi are v6.7.

cblomart/vsphere-graphite:50ab88b worked fine with the old graphite-statsd v0.8.0, but I haven't tested cblomart/vsphere-graphite:eaa6a13 with that old graphite-statsd version.

[cblomart]

On your first screenshot it seems it takes performance metric names in place of vm names.

I presume you are using influxdb as a backend?

I will try to dublicate that in a lab...

[cblomart]

As replied to #78 :

Ok, i tried to implement a limit on graphite and there was a bug in it preventing to collect names of entities.
The limit is in place as graphite doesn't have metadata and doesn't need to collect plentity of extra infromations from vsphere.

Can you test with 05a4dc5 ?

[cblomart]

Worked for the other issue.
The problem should only have been present with graphite (and not with influx).

[cblomart]

Hello @scaleoutsean did you have time to check if the problem is solved by the changes provided?

[scaleoutsean]

Maxed out for many consecutive days. Will try this week or weekend and update this comment!

[cblomart]

Ok... as the issue indicated earlier was realy impacting (vm names no longer collected) is solved... i will close the issue.

[scaleoutsean]

Tried v0.8a release, works fine.