Neptune Apex

Ship your Neptune Apex Metrics via Telegraf to your Logit.io Stack

Follow the steps below to send your observability data to Logit.io

Metrics

Configure Telegraf to ship Neptune Apex metrics to your Logit.io stacks via Logstash.

Install Integration

Please click on the Install Integration button to configure your stack for this source.

Install Telegraf

This integration allows you to configure a Telegraf agent to send your metrics to Logit.io.

Choose the installation method for your operating system:

When you paste the command below into Powershell it will download the Telegraf zip file. Once that is complete, press Enter again and the zip file will be extracted into C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf\telegraf-1.34.1.

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.34.1_windows_amd64.zip -UseBasicParsing -OutFile telegraf-1.34.1_windows_amd64.zip 
Expand-Archive .\telegraf-1.34.1_windows_amd64.zip -DestinationPath 'C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf'

or in Powershell 7 use:

# Download the Telegraf ZIP file
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.34.1_windows_amd64.zip" `
                -OutFile "telegraf-1.34.1_windows_amd64.zip" `
                -UseBasicParsing
 
# Extract the contents of the ZIP file
Expand-Archive -Path ".\telegraf-1.34.1_windows_amd64.zip" `
            -DestinationPath "C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf"

Configure the Telegraf input plugin

The configuration file below is pre-configured to scrape the system metrics from your hosts, add the following code to the configuration file /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf from the previous step.

# Neptune Apex data collector
[[inputs.neptune_apex]]
  ## The Neptune Apex plugin reads the publicly available status.xml data from a local Apex.
  ## Measurements will be logged under "apex".
 
  ## The base URL of the local Apex(es). If you specify more than one server, they will
  ## be differentiated by the "source" tag.
  servers = ["http://apex.local",]
 
  ## The response_timeout specifies how long to wait for a reply from the Apex.
  #response_timeout = "5s"

Read more about how to configure data scraping and configuration options for Neptune Apex (opens in a new tab)

Configure the output plugin

Once you have generated the configuration file, you need to set up the output plug-in to allow Telegraf to transmit your data to Logit.io in Prometheus format. This can be accomplished by incorporating the following code into your configuration file:

[[inputs.tail]]
  name_override = "nginxlog"
  files = ["<Nginx installation directory>/logs/access.log"]
  from_beginning = true
  pipe = false
  data_format = "grok"
  grok_patterns = ["%{COMBINED_LOG_FORMAT}"]
 
[[outputs.http]]
  url = "https://@metricsUsername:@metricsPassword@@metrics_id-vm.logit.io:@vmAgentPort/api/v1/write"
  data_format = "prometheusremotewrite"
 
  [outputs.http.headers]
    Content-Type = "application/x-protobuf"
    Content-Encoding = "snappy"

Remember to replace <Nginx installation directory> with the directory where your Nginx is located.

Start Telegraf

From the location where Telegraf was installed (C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf\telegraf-1.34.1) run the program providing the chosen configuration file as a parameter:

.\telegraf.exe --config telegraf.conf

Once Telegraf is running you should see output similar to the following, which confirms the inputs, output and basic configuration the application has been started with:

Powershell Telegraf information

View your metrics

Data should now have been sent to your Stack.

View My Data

If you don't see take a look at How to diagnose no data in Stack below for how to diagnose common issues.

How to diagnose no data in Stack

If you don't see data appearing in your stack after following this integration, take a look at the troubleshooting guide for steps to diagnose and resolve the problem or contact our support team and we'll be happy to assist.

Telegraf Neptune Apex Overview

In order to effectively monitor and analyze Neptune Apex metrics in a distributed environment, it's vital to have a robust and efficient metrics management solution. Telegraf, an open-source metrics collection agent, is ideally suited for this task, capable of gathering Neptune Apex metrics from a variety of sources, including operational Neptune Apex devices, databases, and other relevant applications.

Telegraf provides a comprehensive selection of input plugins, enabling users to gather metrics from various sources such as CPU usage, memory consumption, network activity, and more. For storing and analyzing these harvested metrics, organizations can use Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting tool known for its flexible querying language and impressive graphical data visualization capabilities.

To transfer Neptune Apex metrics from Telegraf to Prometheus, organizations need to configure Telegraf to output metrics in the Prometheus format, and then set up Prometheus to scrape these metrics from the Telegraf server. This process involves configuring Telegraf to collect Neptune Apex metrics, outputting them in the Prometheus format, setting up Prometheus to pull these metrics from the Telegraf server, and then visually interpreting the data using Prometheus's dynamic querying and graphical visualization features.

Once the metrics are successfully integrated into Prometheus, further analysis and visualization can be conducted using Grafana. Grafana is an open-source platform celebrated for its monitoring and observability capabilities, and it is fully compatible with Prometheus. It allows users to create dynamic, interactive dashboards for a deeper understanding of the metrics data, providing a comprehensive view of performance trends and potential issues.

If you need any further assistance with shipping your log data to Logit.io we're here to help you get started. Feel free to get in contact with our support team by sending us a message via live chat & we'll be happy to assist.

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