Kairos Remote

This plugin used to ship as part of Kairos and was separated out for ease of maintenance.

The remote plugin is for forwarding metric data to a remote Kairos instance. Metric data is gathered locally on the filesystem where it is compressed and uploaded to the remote Kairos on specified intervals. (see kairos-remote.properties for options)

Remote Listener

The remote plugin comes with a data points listener class and in order to laod it you load the ListenerModule in your kairos configuration:

kairosdb.datastore.remote.service.remote=org.kairosdb.plugin.remote.ListenerModule

The ListenerModule adds a listener to the data point events coming into kairos and forwards the events on to a remote Kairos instance. Effectively letting you fork the data.

For a pure remote Kairos instance you can comment out the datastore modules and just use the ListenerModule, effectively making the Kairos instance a write only node.