Take data from salt and "return" it into a carbon receiver
Add the following configuration to your minion configuration files:
carbon.host: <server ip address>
carbon.port: 2003
salt.returners.carbon_return.returner(ret)¶Return data to a remote carbon server using the text metric protocol
Current Salt release: 2014.1.7
Docs for previous releases on salt.rtfd.org.
Full list of builtin returner modules
salt.returners.cassandra_return