Brian L. Troutwine

Results 30 issues of Brian L. Troutwine

I have in my `~/.emacs` ``` (remove-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'esk-turn-on-hl-line-mode) (remove-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'esk-turn-on-idle-highlight-mode) ``` Still, both modes are loaded even after `~/.emacs` has been loaded--both by total restart of emacs and...

The rlua project looks to be pretty tidy and has a full head of steam behind it, as of this writing. Our specific lua -- mond -- is a fork...

enhancement
difficulty: moderate
subsystem: filters

Right now it's possible to have only one source / sink for Native. There's nothing stopping us from having multiples, so long as their ports are offset from one another....

difficulty: easy
feature request
subsystem: sinks
subsystem: sources

Back in the old days we didn't have cernan's internal jargon down pat. In the lua programmable filters functions that manipulate telemetry are called `metric_*` when they ought to be...

enhancement: code smell
subsystem: filters

When issuing points to the Wavefront sink it'd be handy in some situations to send a zero point after a configurable timeout, per a recent conversation with @bitglue. Experimenting with...

enhancement
bug: domain mismatch
difficulty: moderate
subsystem: filters

At present if a user programs a filter and calls a function that does not exist cernan will not detect the error that is bubbled up from lua, call lua...

bug: instability
difficulty: moderate
subsystem: filters

Right now the flush function has no way of signaling error. As @pulltab noted the InfluxDB sink flush will loop infinitely without an influxdb to report to, which is... not...

enhancement
difficulty: moderate
feature request
subsystem: sinks

Presently cernan operates on a 1 second timescale. The native protocol defines time in ms timescales. Cernan's internal model ought to be adjusted to correspond to its native protocol. The...

enhancement
difficulty: moderate

For systems that have gone all-in on Prometheus but need to bridge to other kinds of sinks cernan should be able to read from Prometheus.

enhancement
subsystem: sources

Lua is an obligatory dependency of cernan as of this writing. Not all cernan deployments will wish to use the lua programmable filters but still pay the build-time cost for...

help wanted
difficulty: hard