Vertical Bar in Plugin Output Text

[grenley]

From searching the forum, this topic was last addressed three years ago and I'm hoping progress has been made since.
We have log text that contains vertical bars in the output text.
Obviously, this has been an issue for some time where anything to the right of the vertical bar is stripped and treated as metrics.
Has this been addressed in XI 5?
Big issue for our users.
Thanks, Rick

[ssax]

Unfortunately not, you would need to convert them into something else to get the data into XI. What plugin are you using that is sending them in?

[grenley]

Bummer. I was afraid of that.
We use a custom logfile plugin

[mcapra]

The plugin development guidelines for reference:
https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html

Section pertaining to performance data and the | character:
https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html#AEN200

Substituting this character within the plugin itself is probably your best option.

[grenley]

ok. thanks

[mcapra]

Since the original question was answered, is it alright if we lock this thread?