REST API Collector

v4 5 0 released on 10/08/2026 bug fixes fixed measurements being validated before the collector settings are merged into them a measurement that inherits its url, query parameters, body or method from the collector is no longer rejected with \<starttime> or \<stoptime> value is missing from config fixed \<starttime> and \<stoptime> not being found in nested post bodies the templates are now accepted anywhere they are also substituted, including in nested objects, in lists of objects and in lists of strings fixed \<starttime> and \<stoptime> not being replaced in a post body list of strings, such as {"times" \["\<starttime>", "\<stoptime>"]} fixed an empty collector method being rejected it defaults to get , as the setting has always documented changes configuration errors now name every setting that needs attention in a single message, instead of always reporting the time templates as missing a missing url and an unsupported method are reported as such url is now a required collector setting a collector without one never started, so this reports the problem while configuring instead of on startup measurements can still override the url v4 4 1 released on 16/07/2026 changes a request is again rejected when neither the url, the query parameters nor the body contain \<starttime> and \<stoptime> the check was lost in an earlier refactor updated the base collector to v3 5 3 v4 4 0 released on 22/04/2026 changes added stoptimeshift collector setting to shift the stop time of each live query by a configurable number of seconds (negative values shift into the future) v4 3 1 bug fixes fixed small mistake in trace log message changes added http response body in error log when request fails v4 3 0 changes updated the base collector to v3 5 2 docid\ djs1gflkyd1m31dxqh5cu v4 2 1 released on 14/11/2025 bug fixes fixed collector not respecting proxy environment variables v4 2 0 released on 24/10/2025 changes add setting to forcefully shut down the collector after a certain amount of time v4 1 0 released on 08/10/2025 changes added support for client credentials grant type v4 0 6 released on 30/09/2025 changes removed pattern constraint on request body v4 0 5 released on 10/09/2025 bug fixes fixed issue where deleted measurements were still being processed by the parser v4 0 4 released on 04/06/2025 bug fixes fixed measurements being added before collector was initialized v4 0 3 released on 21/05/2025 changes bump to base collector v3 1 1 docid\ djs1gflkyd1m31dxqh5cubump to parsers v5 0 0 docid\ itl5rcumltcsakzjo54yt v4 0 2 released on 03/04/2025 changes bump to parsers v4 1 0 v4 0 1 released on 29/01/2025 changes disabled streaming until a data loss fix is implemented updated the base collector to v2 7 3 docid\ djs1gflkyd1m31dxqh5cu v4 0 0 released on 08/01/2025 changes bump to parsers v4 0 2 v3 0 0 released on 21/08/2024 changes bump to base collector v2 4 8 and to parsers v3 0 0 switch to unrequired collector settings url and method pass collector context to parser for a graceful collector shutdown only parse received responses when pausing/closing collector instead of finishing all open requests v2 1 1 changes added support for performance monitoring with pyroscope bug fixes restored windows 7 compatibility updated base collector to v2 4 8 docid\ djs1gflkyd1m31dxqh5cu v2 1 0 bug fixes fixed waitgroup bug changes added collectiontype setting implemented monitored data collection v2 0 4 bug fixes fixed waitgroup bug v2 0 3 bug fixes fixed ability to override requests per measurement fixed wrong status code for point on failed request v2 0 2 changes include parser name in collector type and binary name v2 0 1 bug fixes fixed memory leak v1 0 4 bug fixes removed naming conflict in settings changes allow looking back further than the current interval, overlapping with the previous interval allow configuring time zone for query timestamps v1 0 3 bug fixes fixed initialization of tags map changes updated the base collector to v1 2 16 docid\ djs1gflkyd1m31dxqh5cu v1 0 2 bug fixes fixed stoptimehistoric not being optional changes adding body to post request supported content types for body application/json, application xml, application/x www form urlencoded possibility to retrieve status and other tags from the json response updated the base collector to v1 2 15 docid\ djs1gflkyd1m31dxqh5cu v1 0 1 bug fixes fixed measurement overrides influencing collector settings changes allow reading historic data added configurable timeouts for api calls v1 0 0 beta release for the rest api collector features adding query parameters to get request parsing for json response