[munin-users] Configurable graph_title?

[Lars K. <li...@su...>]

Hi,

there is a new pull request for the contrib repository:
 https://github.com/munin-monitoring/contrib/issues/839
It proposes to make the graph_title of the "dirsizes" plugin [1] configurable
via a environment variable.
The contributor of the pull request would like to use a different title for the
"dirsizes" graph on different hosts.

Personally I would tend to dismiss this proposal, since most plugins with a
similar scope (e.g. diskstats_iops) use a static title. This works well, since
the type of the visualized information is always the same - even though the
graphs involve different resources / disks / directories on each host.
In other words: I do not think that this use-case justifies the increased
complexity of that plugin.

On the other hand: we are usually quite liberal with regards to the plugins in
the contrib repository. Thus it may feel weird, if we reject a proposal based on
non-technical reasons.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Lars


[1]
https://github.com/munin-monitoring/contrib/blob/master/plugins/disk/dirsizes