Guillaume Lederrey

@kerlandsson has a pretty good explanation. The idea is that we want the Graphite hierarchy to match the JMX hierarchy. A bean `name` is a single component in the JMX...

> Question: We don't want jmxtrans-agent to have dependencies that would mess with the classpath, is it reasonable to bypass standard elasticsearch java client and implement a basic HTTP POST...

Sounds like a great idea!

Thanks for the project, this seem like a tool I'm going to use. My 6 year old received a Lunii for his birthday! I might be back with more contributions...

I put some of my ideas in code. This might be clearer than my comments on this PR. There are still issues with that code, but it might help you...

Thanks for the PR! See the few comments above. Sadly, I don't have much time to follow, but maybe @gquintana will have more availability.

Unit tests are failing (I did not check in more details, but they obviously need to be fixed before merging this).

First, keep in mind that I know mostly nothing about kafka, influxdb and telegraf, and even less about your setup and what exactly you are trying todo. Some guesswork in...

@gquintana thanks for the kind words! Honestly, beside a rebase, I'm not sure what's missing... It might actually work as-is... (plus the comments you added). I mainly need to find...

If I remember correctly, the real missing piece is exposing the configuration as command line flags. Not that hard, but that part is also messy. We should at some point...