Used binary compressed encoding of json dumped object. To reduce
the size needed to send heart beats incase some stats objects
start getting sent later on. Also used sha256 instead of sha1
with hmac.
Co-Authored-By: Michael Johnson <johnsomor@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: German Eichberger <german.eichbeger@hp.com>
Co-Authored-By: Carlos Garza <carlos.garza@rackspace.com>
Partially implements: health-manager
Change-Id: I932c693101b94c9132e1741291610508876eab43