Alex Leong

Thanks for filing this, @briansmith. I'll try to use this space to shed a bit of light on this topic and hopefully clear up some confusion. I agree with you...

This is very cool. We actually already do this in Conduit (soon to become Linkerd 2.0). Adding this functionality to Linkerd, unfortunately, would be a large amount of work.

Whoa!!! Well, you know what they say: "It's never a Kubernetes bug -- except when it's a Kubernetes bug"

I think I disagree. If there are multiple servers, which server should the client inherit from? Better would be some kind of config linter or warning if your client and...

Great suggestion!

@SecretLiang Yes to both questions.

I was thinking that the easiest way to do this would be to simply create a second endpoint called `metrics-summary.json` or something like that which prints out only certain metrics...

Thanks for filling this! I think this totally makes sense as a feature and seems pretty well scoped. @chrismikehogan, are you interested in working on this? If so, I can...

@chrismikehogan [KvApi](https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd/blob/master/consul/src/main/scala/io/buoyant/consul/v1/KvApi.scala) is the class that defines how we interact with the Consul KV api. I think you'll want to add a parameter to that class that controls if gzipping...

@chrismikehogan please take a look at #2303 and let us know if that satisfies your use case.