BrightcoveOS/Diamond — pull request #463 by jcsp (2013-11-10 00:59:37+00:00)
Title: Allow collectors to pass absolute metric paths

This is a quick hack, it might be cleaner to do something with an explicit flag to publish_metrics, but I was going for the least invasive change.

They may do it by starting metric paths with
collectors.ABSOLUTE_PATH_MARKER.

This is useful for monitoring things which are
not associated with a particular host, such
as cluster state in a distributed system.