Gap every five minutes

[steven2308]

Every 5 minutes there's a gap where Hosted Graphite does not get any metrics. This happens due to this line at leexport.py file:
do_every(CONFIG_LOAD_INTERVAL_SECONDS, load_config_start_searches)

The loading of configuration takes several seconds so during that time no metrics are sent. Since we don't need to reload the configuration we changed the previous line for this and now there's no gaps:
load_config_start_searches()

However it's still a problem for anyone who needs to reload the configuration.

query_period and query_range are set to 50, we can't set query range higher because there would be overlappings in the metrics we send and therefore they would not be real.

Here is an example of what we get in Hosted Graphite

Thank you.

[stopal-r7]

Hey @steven2308, that's perfect. We should definitely have an option to enable/disable config reloading. I will be looking into it. Feel free to create a PR for this if you wish.