Hi, I’m currently writing a local check where I’d like the metrics to have whitespace (blanks), i.e. in the graphs I’d like to see “My Metric” and not “my_metric”. How can this be achieved? Setting the metric name in quotes in the output (‘…"My Metric=12…’) doesn’t seem to work. Escaping the blank (‘…"My\ Metric=12…’) doesn’t work either. Is this possible for local checks at all?
The metric value name cannot have spaces. But you can define a metric and graph definition for your check, than it draws the metrics from your check with understandable names.
Some example and a discussion for this you can find here.
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Local Check - specify correct Unit for Graph Metric already helped, but I realized, that with this method I have to also specify color and unit, otherwise I get ugly Python tracebacks instead of a graph :-), but I’d like to only set the title and leave the rest up to Checkmk (which does a pretty good job). This one worked fine:
metric_info["mymetric"] = {
"title": _('my metric title with blanks'),
"color": "#0000cc",
"unit": "count"
}
but this statement - when omitting the above assigment - didn’t have any effect at all:
metric_info["mymetric"]["title"] = "my metric title with blanks"
also not:
metric_info["mymetric"]["title"] = _("my metric title with blanks")
The single-line assignments only had an effect, if prior to them, the block with the complete dictionary was executed. Isn’t it possible to set single properties of a custom check metric?
I think the short answer is no. For every metric, in your case “mymetric”, you need to specify a title, color and unit. If the name “mymetric” exists already then you don’t need to specify anything.