add exclude

README.md

@@ -28,4 +28,8 @@ Make collect.py executable:
 chmod +x collect.py
 ```
 
-Schedule a cronjob to run collect.py at your preferred interval
+Schedule a cronjob to run collect.py at your preferred interval. Cronjob command is:
+
+```bash
+COLLECTOR_CONF=/root/collector/collector.json /root/collector/collect.py
+```

collector/__init__.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from collector.helper import *
 
 CONFIG_FILE = os.getenv("COLLECTOR_CONF", "collector.json")
 REQUIRED = ["graphite","os","data"]
-VALID_DATAPOINTS = ["storage"]
+VALID_DATAPOINTS = ["storage", "heartbeat"]
 VALID_OS = ["linux", "osx"]
 REQUIRED_STORAGE = ["path", "name"]
 CONFIG = {}
@@ -67,5 +67,12 @@ if "storage" in data_points:
         else:
             name = item["name"]
             path = item["path"]
+            exclude = item.get("exclude", None)
+            else:
                 storage_sender = functools.partial(sender, f"{HOSTNAME}.storage.{name}")
-            thread(collect_storage, storage_sender, path)
+                thread(collect_storage, storage_sender, path, exclude = exclude)
+
+# Check heartbeat
+if "heartbeat" in data_points:
+    heartbeat_sender = functools.partial(sender, f"{HOSTNAME}.heartbeat")
+    thread(lambda: 1, heartbeat_sender)

collector/collector.py

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import threading
 import subprocess
 import re
 import functools
-import random
 import time
 
 from .sender import send
@@ -36,6 +35,9 @@ def collect_temp():
 def collect_compute():
     pass
 
-def collect_storage(path):
-    storage = nice_run(["du", "-sk", path])
+def collect_storage(path, exclude = None):
+    cmd = ["du", "-sk", path]
+    if exclude:
+        cmd += [f"--exclude={exclude}"]
+    storage = nice_run(cmd)
     return clean_storage(storage)

example.json

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     },
     "os": "osx",
     "data": {
+        "heartbeat": null,
         "storage": [
             {
                 "path": "/Users/ducoterra",
@@ -21,6 +22,11 @@
             {
                 "path": "/Users",
                 "name": "users"
+            },
+            {
+                "path": ".",
+                "name": "curdir_noreadme",
+                "exclude": "*.md"
             }
         ]
     }