OpenTSDB - Clean install rejects all metrics - opentsdb

Question

I have installed an instance of openTSDB 2.0 for testing, but the server is rejecting all attempts to insert metrics.
These two are from the documentation:
$ telnet localhost 8020
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
put sys.cpu.nice 1346846400 50 hostname=test1
put: unknown metric: No such name for 'metrics': 'sys.cpu.nice'
put http.hits 1234567890 34877 host=A
put: unknown metric: No such name for 'metrics': 'http.hits'
My hbase server appears to be configured correctly:
hbase(main):012:0> list
TABLE
tsdb
tsdb-meta
tsdb-tree
tsdb-uid
4 row(s) in 0.0130 seconds
=> ["tsdb", "tsdb-meta", "tsdb-tree", "tsdb-uid"]
I have tried with the server set auto create metrics both ways:
tsd.core.auto_create_metrics = true
tsd.core.meta.enable_realtime_ts = true
tsd.core.meta.enable_realtime_uid = true
Any suggestions about what I have done wrong would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try rest api, it takes json as input on port 4242:
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"metric": "sys.cpu.nice", "timestamp": 1346846400,"value": 18, "tags": { "host": "web01"}}' http://localhost:4242/api/put/?details
If you want to do it with code:
import requests
import json
def SendTSDBMetrics(metrics):
response = requests.post(url=tsdburi, data=metrics,headers=headers)
print response.text # print what was inserted
metric = 'sys.cpu.nice'
metrics = []
metrics.append({'metric':metric, 'timestamp':time.now(), 'value':18, 'tags':{"device_id":"1"}})
metrics.append({'metric':metric, 'timestamp':time.now(), 'value':100, 'tags':{"device_id":"1"}})
SendTSDBMetrics(json.dumps(metrics))