From af0979cce5f366819d8b9dda2eb9fdec1635e6cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cameron Sparr Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 12:18:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] change "default" retention policy to "" closes #1374 --- CHANGELOG.md | 1 + etc/telegraf.conf | 4 ++-- plugins/outputs/influxdb/influxdb.go | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 25e5b3daa9096..9741180e5e601 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/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] diff --git a/etc/telegraf.conf b/etc/telegraf.conf index 8192bd12e5666..45856fb7787b4 100644 --- a/etc/telegraf.conf +++ b/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" diff --git a/plugins/outputs/influxdb/influxdb.go b/plugins/outputs/influxdb/influxdb.go index d2c0523c709af..2b9fd101cbb85 100644 --- a/plugins/outputs/influxdb/influxdb.go +++ b/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"