From 7a5f66c75a3d52e1c9a9d3666466223c1106e9de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip O'Toole <philip@influxdb.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:12:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Use _internal as default self-monitoring database

---
 cmd/influxd/config.go  | 2 +-
 etc/config.sample.toml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/influxd/config.go b/cmd/influxd/config.go
index f0cc42ca47..dec456afe2 100644
--- a/cmd/influxd/config.go
+++ b/cmd/influxd/config.go
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ func NewConfig() (*Config, error) {
 	c.ReportingDisabled = false
 
 	c.Statistics.Enabled = false
-	c.Statistics.Database = "internal"
+	c.Statistics.Database = "_internal"
 	c.Statistics.RetentionPolicy = "default"
 	c.Statistics.WriteInterval = Duration(1 * time.Minute)
 
diff --git a/etc/config.sample.toml b/etc/config.sample.toml
index 7b00f8d743..8080261ed0 100644
--- a/etc/config.sample.toml
+++ b/etc/config.sample.toml
@@ -98,6 +98,6 @@ raft-tracing = false # If true, enables detailed logging of Raft consensus.
 # as any other data.
 [statistics]
 enabled = false
-database = "internal"         # The database to which the data is written.
+database = "_internal"         # The database to which the data is written.
 retention-policy = "default"   # The retention policy within the database.
 write-interval = "1m"          # Period between writing the data.