{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bosun-monitor/bosun/issues/1404","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bosun-monitor/bosun/issues/1404/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bosun-monitor/bosun/issues/1404/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bosun-monitor/bosun/issues/1404/events","html_url":"https://github.com/bosun-monitor/bosun/issues/1404","id":112350477,"number":1404,"title":"Multiple backends of the same type?","user":{"login":"aodj","id":1374905,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1374905?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj","html_url":"https://github.com/aodj","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aodj/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2015-10-20T11:52:03Z","updated_at":"2015-11-11T14:27:50Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Is it possible to have multiple instances of the same type of backends? for example multiple InfluxDB backends or multiple ElasticSearch backends? I ask because I'm trying to pull in data from two separate instances but simply creating a duplicate key results in a config error:\r\n`fatal: main.go:88: conf: bosun.config:2:0: at <influxHost = xx.xx.x...>: duplicate key: influxHost`"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bosun-monitor/bosun/issues/comments/155796942","html_url":"https://github.com/bosun-monitor/bosun/issues/1404#issuecomment-155796942","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bosun-monitor/bosun/issues/1404","id":155796942,"user":{"login":"kylebrandt","id":1692624,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1692624?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt","html_url":"https://github.com/kylebrandt","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kylebrandt/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-11T14:27:50Z","updated_at":"2015-11-11T14:27:50Z","body":"Sounds like a pretty solid use case to me - thanks for that. With influx I like:\r\n\r\ninflux(\"db2:mydb\",\"query\",\"\",\"\")\r\n\r\nThe same thing could be done with elastic. Not sure with Graphite and OpenTSDB. Maybe we should just change influx for now to solve lpalms problem, since we already specify the DB on those anyways, just make host:db"}}