munin plugin varnish_ - feature request: support multiple varnish instances

[Marc Fournier]

Hello,

> This is a feature request for the munin plugin varnish_
> Although it's rather trivial to implement i'm not enough into perl to 
> contribute a patch.
> 
> 
> We’re running multiple varnish instances (different
> varnishd/varnishstats binaries) on our servers.
> 
> Currently varnish_ only allows to monitor one of them.
> (http://varnish-cache.org/browser/trunk/varnish-tools/munin/varnish_?rev=4439)

In case you're just using munin to collect varnish stats in RRD files,
you could use collectd instead, which has a plugin for varnish which
supports multiple instances. It's currently in development and testing
would be welcome.

 -> http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Varnish

If you have a whole munin infrastructure, this workaround will probably
not be the best solution.

Marc