Using scollector with bosun and not OpenTSDB

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I'm trying to run scollector on my windows server and send collected data into bosun server. I'm not running any OpenTSDB server, but I read in scollectors documentation that it can send metadata into OpenTSDB or bosun.

Unlike tcollector, scollector is a single binary where all collectors are compiled into scollector itself. scollector supports external collectors, but your goal should be to use those temporarily until the go version is written or the target system send data directly to OpenTSDB or Bosun. scollector has native collectors for Linux, Darwin, and Windows and can pull data from other systems such as AWS, SNMP, and vSphere.

I'm running this in command line:

"scollector-windows-amd64.exe" -h external-server-name:8070

it gives me:

2016/03/08 10:06:46 info: main.go:187: OpenTSDB host: external-server-name:8070
2016/03/08 10:06:47 error: queue.go:87: 404 Not Found
2016/03/08 10:06:47 error: queue.go:93: 404 page not found
2016/03/08 10:06:47 info: queue.go:103: restored 4, sleeping 5s

When I'm navigating into external-server-name:8070 I can see bosun dashboard page. How can I tell scollector that it should send data to bosun server and skip sending it to OpenTSDB. Can I specify that -h option refers to bosun server?

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You still need a backend for bosun. Currently the config supports tsdbHost, graphiteHost, or influxHost. When you send data to http://external-server-name:8070/api/put it just forwards it to http://tsdbHost/api/put.

I don't think Graphite support the opentsdb put format, so you probably can't use scollector to send metrics to Graphite. Influx supports the opentsdb protocol so you can try pointing scollector at an instance of tsdbrelay which forwards metrics to the influxdb opentsdb port and sends a copy to bosun for indexing:

#Listen on 5252 for metrics, forward to local influxdb on 4242
#and send to local Bosun on 8070 so it can index the tags/metrics
/opt/tsdbrelay/tsdbrelay -b localhost:8070 -t localhost:4242 -l 0.0.0.0:5252