NAME¶

carbon-cache - accepts metrics over various protocols and writes them to disk

SYNOPSIS¶

carbon-cache [options] start

DESCRIPTION¶

carbon-cache accepts metrics over various protocols and writes them to disk as efficiently as possible. This requires caching metric values in RAM as they are received, and flushing them to disk on an interval using the underlying whisper library.

The options are described below.

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help

Show the embedded help.

--debug

Run in the foreground, log to stdout

--profile=PROFILE

Record performance profile data to the given file

--pidfile=PIDFILE

Write pid to the given file

--config=CONFIG

Use the given config file

--logdir=LOGDIR

Write logs in the given directory

--instance=INSTANCE

Manage a specific carbon instance

AUTHOR¶

carbon-cache, created by Chris Davis.

This manual page was written by Jonas Genannt <jonas.genannt@capi2name.de, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).