Issues with tag matching in Graphite templates

[kostasb]

version: 1.0.0

Configuring multiple templates for the Graphite input format will result in the shortest template matching successfully while the rest are ignored.

Example:

templates=["measurement.host.metric.metric.metric"]
input: net.server001.a.b.c 2
output: net,host=server001,metric=a.b.c value=2 timestamp

templates=["measurement.host.metric.metric.metric","measurement.host.metric.metric"]
input: net.server001.a.b.c 2
output: net,host=server001,metric=a.b value=2 

templates=["measurement.host.metric.metric.metric","measurement.host.metric.metric","measurement.host.metric"]
input: net.server001.a.b.c 2
output: net,host=server001,metric=a value=2

Greedy matching (like metric*) which is supported for measurements and fields but not tags, could be considered as a solution.

[teraflik]

@sparrc Does telegraf support wildcard matching for tags?

For example

templates=["measurement.host.metric"]
input: net.server001.a.b.c 2

Will the output be
net,host=server001,metric=a value=2 or net,host=server001,metric=a.b.c value=2

If it will be the first, is there a way to achieve second?