Don't write new-lines to the Graphite socket to test if it's still connected

fixes #6549

diff --git a/components/perfdata/graphitewriter.cpp b/components/perfdata/graphitewriter.cpp
index 3adc0357e255a55956fc52789934573846c6e19c..f8cace1e73eed02ebe8aac8c2da82a275951829f 100644 (file)
--- a/components/perfdata/graphitewriter.cpp
+++ b/components/perfdata/graphitewriter.cpp
@@ -74,15 +74,8 @@ void GraphiteWriter::Start(void)
 
 void GraphiteWriter::ReconnectTimerHandler(void)
 {
-       try {
-               if (m_Stream) {
-                       m_Stream->Write("\n", 1);
-                       Log(LogNotice, "GraphiteWriter", "Already connected on socket on host '" + GetHost() + "' port '" + GetPort() + "'.");
-                       return;
-               }
-       } catch (const std::exception&) {
-               Log(LogWarning, "GraphiteWriter", "Socket on host '" + GetHost() + "' port '" + GetPort() + "' gone. Attempting to reconnect.");
-       }
+       if (m_Stream)
+               return;
 
        TcpSocket::Ptr socket = make_shared<TcpSocket>();
 
@@ -185,7 +178,7 @@ void GraphiteWriter::SendMetric(const String& prefix, const String& name, double
        try {
                m_Stream->Write(metric.CStr(), metric.GetLength());
        } catch (const std::exception& ex) {
-               Log(LogCritical, "GraphiteWriter", "Cannot write to tcp socket on host '" + GetHost() + "' port '" + GetPort() + "'.");
+               Log(LogCritical, "GraphiteWriter", "Cannot write to TCP socket on host '" + GetHost() + "' port '" + GetPort() + "'.");
 
                m_Stream.reset();
        }