Google Cloud Interconnect Metrics via Telegraf
Ship your Google Cloud Interconnect Metrics via Telegraf to your Logit.io Stack
Configure Telegraf to ship Google Cloud Interconnect metrics to your Logit.io stacks via Logstash.
Follow this step by step guide to get 'logs' from your system to Logit.io:
Step 1 - Set credentials in GCP
Google Cloud Interconnect represents a specialized suite of services nestled within Google Cloud, meticulously devised for establishing private network connections, fostering secure and efficient communication within a cloud-driven infrastructure.
- Begin by heading over to the 'Project Selector' and select the specific project from which you wish to send metrics.
- Progress to the 'Service Account Details' screen. Here, assign a distinct name to your service account and opt for 'Create and Continue'.
- In the 'Grant This Service Account Access to Project' screen, ensure the following roles: 'Compute Viewer', 'Monitoring Viewer', and 'Cloud Asset Viewer'.
- Upon completion of the above, click 'Done'.
- Now find and select your project in the 'Service Accounts for Project' list.
- Move to the 'KEYS' section.
- Navigate through Keys > Add Key > Create New Key, and specify 'JSON' as the key type.
- Lastly, click on 'Create', and make sure to save your new key.
Now add the environment variable for the key
On the machine run:
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<your-gcp-key>
Step 2 - Install 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
Step 3 - Configure the Telegraf input plugin
First you need to set up the input plug-in to enable Telegraf to scrape the GCP data from your hosts. This can be accomplished by incorporating the following code into your configuration file:
# Gather timeseries from Google Cloud Platform v3 monitoring API
[[inputs.stackdriver]]
## GCP Project
project = "<your-project-name>"
## Include timeseries that start with the given metric type.
metric_type_prefix_include = [
"interconnect.googleapis.com",
]
## Most metrics are updated no more than once per minute; it is recommended
## to override the agent level interval with a value of 1m or greater.
interval = "1m"
Step 4 - 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:
[[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"
Step 5 - Start Telegraf
Windows
telegraf.exe --service start
MacOS
telegraf --config telegraf.conf
Linux
sudo service telegraf start
for systemd installations
systemctl start telegraf
Step 6 - View your metrics
Data should now have been sent to your Stack.
If you don't see metrics take a look at How to diagnose no data in Stack below for how to diagnose common issues.
Step 7 - How to diagnose no data in Stack
If you don't see data appearing in your Stack after following the steps, visit the Help Centre guide for steps to diagnose no data appearing in your Stack or Chat to support now.
Step 8 - Telegraf Google Cloud Interconnect metrics Overview
For effective tracking and insightful examination of Google Cloud Interconnect metrics across various systems, the indispensability of a robust and adept metrics management solution like Telegraf is paramount. As an open-source server agent, Telegraf is lauded for its proficiency in collecting and reporting metrics from a myriad of sources, including active Interconnect instances and related applications.
Telegraf comes equipped with a comprehensive array of input plugins, authorizing users to aggregate diverse metrics such as connection quality, latency, error rates, and beyond. These metrics are crucial to decipher the performance of Google Cloud Interconnect. For the conservation and scrutiny of these amassed metrics, organizations can employ Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, renowned for its adaptable query language and formidable data visualization aptitudes.
The mechanism to channel Google Cloud Interconnect metrics from Telegraf to Prometheus includes configuring Telegraf to exhibit metrics in Prometheus's format, succeeded by instructing Prometheus to scrape these metrics off the Telegraf server.
After the metrics are successfully incorporated into Prometheus, an extensive analysis and visualization can be pursued using Grafana. Grafana, a leading open-source platform praised for its monitoring and observability capabilities, aligns perfectly with Prometheus. It empowers users to design dynamic, interactive dashboards for an exhaustive exploration of the metrics data, bestowing a profound insight into performance trends and potential predicaments within Google Cloud Interconnect.
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.