Armon Dadgar

@jf Totally. Many ways to architect around this. At my old job where we used bloomd we simply had a separate log that went to S3 that we could replay...

@jtv4k You mean to rename to an existing filter? e.g. an implicit drop of the existing filter then?

@jtv4k Hmm. This would be a pretty complex change internally ATM. The underlying files are at a path based on the filter name, so we'd have to support renaming all...

Depending on the app, it might be simpler to simpler coordinate a switch over from `filterA` to `filterB`. For example, using something like Consul (shameless plug, I apologize), you could...

I'll look into this, shouldn't be too hard

@banks I like it! Seems like a good way to make it extensible

The basic issue is that UDP provides no feedback. So if statsd dies or the IP is relocated, we can continue to fire-and-forget packets without ever getting an error. Unlike...

@johnrengelman That's true! But ICMP is not necessarily reliable. It can be disabled, blocked by firewalls, and is fire-and-forget like UDP as well, so it can be simply dropped. There...

I don't have strong opinions here, I just merged in the work that @stapelberg did as we don't use Prometheus ourselves.

Sounds good