API polling - best route to make a string into an int?

ahbrook

I'm trying to set up a way to monitor the health of our YouTrack instance. I could just do a basic HTTP monitor, because it is running in Java on a website served up by our Netscaler, but I wanted more in-depth metrics about the overall system.

I discovered that YouTrack provides telemetry data via their API, which is nearly perfect: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/devportal/resource-api-admin-telemetry.html

I was able to use this to plug in data into an API poller.

However, I swiftly learned that the data output by YouTrack isn't really readable by Orion. Specifically, the various things like "usedMemory," "uptime,"  and "databaseSize" are all returned as strings.

This is a problem, because strings assume a 1:1 relationship between results, and if I put them in as numeric then Orion bombs out trying to collect them.

Is there any way to work around this? A few things pop to mind:

1. Somehow get YouTrack to output its strings as Int or Long, and then have Orion interpret that into the correct values
2. Do some custom work that recognizes the units of measurement on the string and populates them properly in Orion
3. Maybe put in a feature request so that "common" strings like this can be properly read by Orion

While I'm at it, I'd love an option for it to read the # of OnlineUsers and report that.