generating sample json for metrics

tests/tmux/README.md

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+## Generating Sample JSON
+
+Use [http://www.json-generator.com/](http://www.json-generator.com/)
+
+```json
+[
+  '{{repeat(1000,1000)}}',
+  {
+    "database": "foo", 
+    "retentionPolicy": "bar",
+    "points": [
+      {
+        "name": "cpu", 
+        "tags": {"host": "server01"},
+        "timestamp": "{{date(new Date(2015, 15, 1), new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-ddThh:mm:ss Z')}}",
+        "values": {
+          "value": '{{integer(1, 1000)}}'
+        }
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+]
+```
+
+You can curl the data with the following command:
+
+```bash
+cat sample.json | curl -d @- -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8086/write
+```