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# metricas
A pipeline for metrics acquisition and storage.

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## Pre-requisites

* Go 1.5.1
* `make`
* Go tools
** http://getgb.io[`gb`] - `go get -u github.com/constabulary/gb/...`

## Development

### Build

The following will take care of generating code, build and run tests.
```
make all
```

## Deployment

```
docker run --name influxdb -d --net host -e PRE_CREATE_DB="metrics" tutum/influxdb
docker run --name nats -d --net host nats
```

Configure InfluxDB authentication needed for Grafana:

* Point your browser to http://`boot2docker ip`:8086/
* Run the following query `CREATE USER test WITH PASSWORD'test'`

http://docs.grafana.org/datasources/influxdb[Configure Grafana integration with InfluxDB].

## Available flags

```
  -db string
    	InfluxDB address (host:port) (default "localhost:8086")
  -db_name string
    	InfluxDB database to write to (default "metrics")
  -db_pwd string
    	Optional user password to access InfluxDB
  -db_user string
    	Optional user to access InfluxDB
  -nats string
    	NATS adress (host:port) (default "localhost:4222")
```