From bf39ec5bf173ead25cd20cf57454aaffbe15402f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Brazil <brian.brazil@boxever.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 13:07:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Do an initial run of the collectors, so that you don't have
 to wait 60s to see the first values.

---
 node_exporter.go | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/node_exporter.go b/node_exporter.go
index ee2d5017..f6671aa3 100644
--- a/node_exporter.go
+++ b/node_exporter.go
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ func main() {
 
 	go serveStatus(registry)
 
+	log.Printf("Starting initial collection")
+	collect(collectors)
+
 	tick := time.Tick(*interval)
 	for {
 		select {
@@ -63,15 +66,7 @@ func main() {
 
 		case <-tick:
 			log.Printf("Starting new interval")
-			wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
-			wg.Add(len(collectors))
-			for _, c := range collectors {
-				go func(c collector.Collector) {
-					Execute(c)
-					wg.Done()
-				}(c)
-			}
-			wg.Wait()
+			collect(collectors)
 
 		case <-sigUsr1:
 			log.Printf("got signal")
@@ -120,6 +115,18 @@ func serveStatus(registry prometheus.Registry) {
 	http.ListenAndServe(*listeningAddress, exp.DefaultCoarseMux)
 }
 
+func collect(collectors []collector.Collector) {
+	wg := sync.WaitGroup{}
+	wg.Add(len(collectors))
+	for _, c := range collectors {
+		go func(c collector.Collector) {
+			Execute(c)
+			wg.Done()
+		}(c)
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+}
+
 func Execute(c collector.Collector) {
 	begin := time.Now()
 	updates, err := c.Update()