new-collector-template

Boilerplate for creating new collectors.

Usage

Hit the "Use this template" button to create a new repository from the template.
Run ./template.sh collector-foo-bar.
Make any needed modifications under the proto directory for the collector's API.
Pick an unallocated port and update the config package to replace the default for --port.
- The config tests will need to be updated as well

Example collector endpoint
Flag configuration under config
Boilerplate for creating a gRPC server & gRPC gateway in the server package and main.go
Dockerfile
Unit tests, including a mock for the Rode client.
Protobuf code generation
GoReleaser config
Makefile targets for common tasks
- coverage: Runs the tests and opens a browser window with the code coverage report
- fmt: Runs gofmt
- fmtcheck: Checks to see if gofmt needs to run
- generate: Generates client and server code from the protobuf definitions
- license: Runs addlicense to populate license headers on source code
- mocks: Generates a mock for the Rode client
- test: Runs unit tests
- vet: Runs go vet