Aerospike Metrics via Telegraf

This integration allows you to configure a Telegraf agent to send your metrics, in multiple formats, to Logit.io.

Telegraf is a flexible server agent equipped with plug-in support, useful for sending metrics and events from data sources like web servers, APIs, application logs, and cloud services.

To ship your metrics to Logit.io, we will integrate the relevant input and outputs.http plug-in into your Telegraf configuration file.

Choose the install for your operating system below to get started:

Windows

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.19.2_windows_amd64.zip

Download and extract to: C:\Program Files\Logitio\telegraf\

Configuration file: C:\Program Files\Logitio\telegraf\

MacOS

brew install telegraf

Configuration file x86_64 Intel: /usr/local/etc/telegraf.conf Configuration file ARM (Apple Silicon): /opt/homebrew/etc/telegraf.conf

Ubuntu/Debian

wget -q https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key
echo '393e8779c89ac8d958f81f942f9ad7fb82a25e133faddaf92e15b16e6ac9ce4c influxdata-archive_compat.key' | sha256sum -c && cat influxdata-archive_compat.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdata-archive_compat.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdata-archive_compat.gpg] https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdata.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install telegraf

Configuration file: /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf

RedHat and CentOS

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/influxdata.repo
[influxdata]
name = InfluxData Repository - Stable
baseurl = https://repos.influxdata.com/stable/\$basearch/main
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key
EOF

sudo yum install telegraf

Configuration file: /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf

SLES & openSUSE

zypper ar -f obs://devel:languages:go/ go
zypper in telegraf

Configuration file: /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf

FreeBSD/PC-BSD

sudo pkg install telegraf

Configuration file: /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf

Read more about how to configure data scraping and configuration options for Telegraf

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.

# Read stats from aerospike server(s)
[[inputs.aerospike]]
  ## Aerospike servers to connect to (with port)
  ## This plugin will query all namespaces the aerospike
  ## server has configured and get stats for them.
  servers = ["localhost:3000"]

  # username = "telegraf"
  # password = "pa$$word"

  ## Optional TLS Config
  # enable_tls = false
  # tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  # tls_name = "tlsname"
  ## If false, skip chain & host verification
  # insecure_skip_verify = true

  # Feature Options
  # Add namespace variable to limit the namespaces executed on
  # Leave blank to do all
  # disable_query_namespaces = true # default false
  # namespaces = ["namespace1", "namespace2"]

  # Enable set level telemetry
  # query_sets = true # default: false
  # Add namespace set combinations to limit sets executed on
  # Leave blank to do all sets
  # sets = ["namespace1/set1", "namespace1/set2", "namespace3"]

  # Histograms
  # enable_ttl_histogram = true # default: false
  # enable_object_size_linear_histogram = true # default: false

  # by default, aerospike produces a 100 bucket histogram
  # this is not great for most graphing tools, this will allow
  # the ability to squash this to a smaller number of buckets
  # To have a balanced histogram, the number of buckets chosen
  # should divide evenly into 100.
  # num_histogram_buckets = 100 # default: 10

Read more about how to configure data scraping and configuration options for Aerospike

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:

[[outputs.http]]
  
  url = "https://<your-metrics-username>:<your-metrics-password>@<your-metrics-stack-id>-vm.logit.io:0/api/v1/write"
  data_format = "prometheusremotewrite"

  [outputs.http.headers]
    Content-Type = "application/x-protobuf"
    Content-Encoding = "snappy"

Windows

telegraf.exe --service start

MacOS

telegraf --config telegraf.conf

Linux

sudo service telegraf start

for systemd installations

systemctl start telegraf

Data should now have been sent to your Stack.

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In order to effectively monitor and analyze Aerospike metrics in a distributed environment, it's essential to leverage a powerful and efficient metrics management solution. Telegraf, the open-source server agent for collecting and sending telemetry data, is an ideal choice for this task. It can gather Aerospike metrics from a variety of sources, such as operational Aerospike clusters, databases, and other relevant applications.

Telegraf is equipped with a wide array of input plugins, enabling users to collect metrics from diverse sources including CPU usage, memory utilization, network traffic, and more, all critical to comprehending Aerospike performance. For storing and inspecting these gathered metrics, organizations can use Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit known for its flexible querying language and strong data visualization capabilities.

To transmit Aerospike 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 setting up Telegraf to collect Aerospike metrics, outputting them in the Prometheus format, configuring Prometheus to retrieve these metrics from the Telegraf server, and then visually interpreting the data using Prometheus's dynamic querying and graphical visualization tools.

Once the metrics are successfully integrated into Prometheus, further analysis and visualization can be executed using Grafana. Grafana, a leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability, is fully compatible with Prometheus. It permits users to create dynamic, interactive dashboards for an in-depth look into the metrics data, providing a thorough understanding of performance trends and potential issues in the Aerospike system.

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.