Merging upstream version 1.29.0.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/backends/backends.h b/backends/backends.h
index 9da04ccee..2f4efd90d 100644
--- a/backends/backends.h
+++ b/backends/backends.h
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ typedef enum backend_types {
     BACKEND_TYPE_OPENTSDB_USING_TELNET,     // Send data to OpenTSDB using telnet API
     BACKEND_TYPE_OPENTSDB_USING_HTTP,       // Send data to OpenTSDB using HTTP API
     BACKEND_TYPE_JSON,                      // Stores the data using JSON.
-    BACKEND_TYPE_PROMETEUS,                 // The user selected to use Prometheus backend
+    BACKEND_TYPE_PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE,   // The user selected to use Prometheus backend
     BACKEND_TYPE_KINESIS,                   // Send message to AWS Kinesis
-    BACKEND_TYPE_MONGODB                    // Send data to MongoDB collection
+    BACKEND_TYPE_MONGODB,                   // Send data to MongoDB collection
+    BACKEND_TYPE_NUM                        // Number of backend types
 } BACKEND_TYPE;
 
-
 typedef int (**backend_response_checker_t)(BUFFER *);
 typedef int (**backend_request_formatter_t)(BUFFER *, const char *, RRDHOST *, const char *, RRDSET *, RRDDIM *, time_t, time_t, BACKEND_OPTIONS);
 
@@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ typedef int (**backend_request_formatter_t)(BUFFER *, const char *, RRDHOST *, c
 
 extern int global_backend_update_every;
 extern BACKEND_OPTIONS global_backend_options;
+extern const char *global_backend_source;
 extern const char *global_backend_prefix;
 
 extern void *backends_main(void *ptr);
+BACKEND_TYPE backend_select_type(const char *type);
 
 extern BACKEND_OPTIONS backend_parse_data_source(const char *source, BACKEND_OPTIONS backend_options);