{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/373","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/373/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/373/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/373/events","html_url":"https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/373","id":30406268,"number":373,"title":"Add Metadata Associated to a Series","user":{"login":"samuraraujo","id":61430,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/61430?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo","html_url":"https://github.com/samuraraujo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/samuraraujo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2014-03-28T17:24:58Z","updated_at":"2015-07-24T01:16:43Z","closed_at":"2015-03-10T14:36:54Z","body":"Proposal: It would be nice if we could store metadata about the series itself, so it could be used for presentation, graphing, etc. \r\n\r\nHere is a scenario:\r\n\r\nSuppose we have series representing pageviews:\r\n\r\ncompany.uri1.pageview\r\ncompany.uri2.pageview\r\ncompany.uri3.pageview\r\n....\r\n\r\nThe series contain two columns value and timestamp\r\n\r\nEx.\r\nbloghouse.b7cb47c1a9a4642b9882b0cb4393a71fc4dbff44.pageview  \r\n\r\nvalue timestamp\r\n1         32874982893\r\n32         32874982895\r\n42         32874982897\r\n....\r\n\r\nbloghouse.b7cb47c5454656459882b0cb4393a71fc4dbff44.pageview  \r\n\r\nvalue timestamp\r\n1         32874982893\r\n52         32874982895\r\n76         32874982897\r\n....\r\n\r\nNow I need to visualize these series in a graph. However, I want to have a nice name to  my series,i.e, the title of the page (\"Post About Furnish\")  instead of \"bloghouse.b7cb47c1a9a4642b9882b0cb4393a71fc4dbff44.pageview\" .\r\n\r\nIt would be nice if we could store metadata about the series itself, so it could be used for presentation, graphing, etc. \r\n\r\nOnce stored, the metadata could be obtained by querying as well.\r\n\r\n:)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/comments/124286557","html_url":"https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/373#issuecomment-124286557","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/influxdb/influxdb/issues/373","id":124286557,"user":{"login":"KrishnaPG","id":4610831,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4610831?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG","html_url":"https://github.com/KrishnaPG","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KrishnaPG/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-24T01:16:43Z","updated_at":"2015-07-24T01:16:43Z","body":"@pauldix This is a valid concept and cannot be achieved with tags alone. I have put some additional info on the challenges with the tags approach in this issue: https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/3445 "}}