Disable metric name substition

[tomplast]

Hi,

I have a check that outputs a lot of performance data and when sent to graphite I would like it to preserve the . (DOTS) so I can have the structure I require.

It would be nice if it were possible to conditionally turn off the substitution for the metric names, something like this:

if e.name.startswith('@'):
name = e.name[1:]
else:
name = self.illegal_char.sub('_', e.name)

I'm not sure but I have a feeling that this may break the graphite plugin for the WebUI? None the less, would be really nice to be able to use Shinken to get the metrics into Graphite instead of having to use some separate script just to ship it directly to Graphite.

[mohierf]

@tomplast : would you mind copying an example please. I am not sure to really understand what you want exactly ...