def pullData(self):
     '''
         consume messages from each datapoint's queue, 
         format and push to opentsdb queue
     '''
     start = time.time()
     #self.messages = []
     for datapoint in self._taskConfig.datapoints:
         zqueue = QueueHandler()
         results = zqueue.get(datapoint['path'])
         for r in results:  
             msg = self.tsdbFormat(datapoint['metadata'], eval(r))
             self.messages.append(msg)
     end = time.time() - start
     avg = len(self._taskConfig.datapoints)/(end+.001)
     log.info("pullData %s queues for %s in %0.1f seconds at %0.1f queues/s" % (len(self._taskConfig.datapoints),self.configId, end, avg))
 def consumeDatapoints(self):
     '''
        push messages from opentsdb queue to the TSDB server
     '''
     log.debug("consumeDatapoints")
     start = time.time()
     try:
         q = QueueHandler() 
         q._delete = False
         messages = q.get('opentsdb')
         for message in messages:
             result = self._tsd.send(message)
             if result != len(message):
                 log.warn('failed TSDB delivery for %s...requeuing' % message)
                 q.messages = messages
                 q.put("opentsdb")
         end = time.time() - start
         avg = len(messages)/(end+.01)
         log.info("pushed %s datapoints in %0.1f seconds at %0.1f msg/s" % (len(messages),end,avg))
     except:
         log.warn("problem collecting data")