events

[igor-zacharov]

I'm using the new event feature in 0.8.71
The events are introduced with the ! sign. Here is the kind of string sent to akumulid:
+!packet.arrival host=xxx othertags\r\n+timestamp\r\n+count
formatted according to https://docs.akumuli.org/writing-data documentation.
Count is just an integer number formatted as a string.

However that leads to the error message in akumuli.log:
"metric": "!packet.arrival",
Main [ERROR] Metric name can't be empty or start with '!' s

An additional explanation of how to use the events may be helpfull.

[Lazin]

Hi!
The event message format looks good.
The error message that you posted can be generated if you'll try to fetch events using normal 'select' query. To read the events you should use 'select-events' query - https://docs.akumuli.org/query-language#select-events-query
You can also use akumuli-datasource for Grafana which supports annotations now - https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/akumuli-datasource