`metrics_datadog_enabled` filter seems to be ignored

[Kishore Nallan]

Re-posting this forum post as an issue here:

We’re currently using the Datadog metrics reporter. It’s working fine but we wanted to filter the number of metrics it sends to Graylog. I tried doing that by adding the following line to Graylog config:

metrics_datadog_include_metrics = org.graylog2.shared.journal.KafkaJournal.uncommittedMessages

However, when I added this line and restarted the Graylog server, the filtering did not kick in: all Graylog metrics were sent to Datadog, while I expected only uncommittedMessages to be sent.

I tried this on one more host with the same result. Also, tried with a wildcard pattern like org.graylog2.shared.* -- still all metrics were being sent.

I’ve only 2 other metrics related configuration:

metrics_datadog_enabled = true
metrics_datadog_transport = UDP

I am using the following JAR which does seem to contain the code required for metric filtering: https://github.com/graylog-labs/graylog-plugin-metrics-reporter/releases/download/2.4.0-beta.3/metrics-reporter-datadog-2.4.0-beta.3.jar 1

[Kishore Nallan]

This issue does not seem to be confined to just datadog. Even with statsd, filtering of metrics does not happen.

[Kishore Nallan]

This turned out to be an issue with our metrics collector. Closing the issue. Sorry for the false alarm.