From 7ec28e51fc5c6adf964497e29cfa1ca3aaa2d53e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Nicholas St. Germain" <nick@cajun.pro>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 20:19:54 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] catch server error for influx

---
 varken/dbmanager.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/varken/dbmanager.py b/varken/dbmanager.py
index 486d8aa..2a50d4f 100644
--- a/varken/dbmanager.py
+++ b/varken/dbmanager.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from logging import getLogger
 from influxdb import InfluxDBClient
+from influxdb.exceptions import InfluxDBServerError
 
 
 class DBManager(object):
@@ -21,4 +22,8 @@ class DBManager(object):
     def write_points(self, data):
         d = data
         self.logger.debug('Writing Data to InfluxDB %s', d)
-        self.influx.write_points(d)
+        try:
+            self.influx.write_points(d)
+        except InfluxDBServerError as e:
+            self.logger.error('Error writing data to influxdb. Dropping this set of data. Check your database! Error: '
+                              '%s', e)