Google VM Manager Metrics via Telegraf
Ship your Google VM Manager Metrics via Telegraf to your Logit.io Stack
Configure Telegraf to ship Google VM Manager 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 VM Manager is a service offered by Google Cloud that provides a centralized and simplified interface for managing virtual machine (VM) instances. It allows organizations to create, configure, and monitor VMs across multiple regions and zones within Google Cloud.
- 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 = [
"osconfig.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 VM Manager Platform metrics Overview
Integrating Telegraf with Google VM Manager enables organizations to closely monitor their VMs' health, performance, and security status. This integration is pivotal for IT and operations teams to ensure their cloud infrastructure operates optimally and securely. By collecting metrics on system updates, configuration changes, and security vulnerabilities, teams can gain actionable insights into their VM fleet, facilitating proactive maintenance and swift response to potential issues.
However, the vast amount of data generated from monitoring VMs can be overwhelming and complex to analyze. Logit.io offers a robust solution to these challenges by providing an advanced analytics platform that simplifies the process of ingesting, processing, visualizing, and analyzing metrics from Telegraf and Google VM Manager.
With Logit.io, organizations can enhance their VM monitoring and management strategies, enabling them to identify and mitigate issues more efficiently, optimize resource utilization, and ensure their cloud environments adhere to security and compliance standards. The platform's advanced analytics capabilities support informed decision-making and operational excellence, ensuring high availability and performance of cloud-based VMs.
For those leveraging Telegraf in conjunction with Google VM Manager and seeking to improve their cloud infrastructure monitoring and analytics, Logit.io provides the necessary tools and support. Our platform helps manage the complexity of cloud-based VM data, allowing you to gain actionable insights and maintain a robust, secure cloud environment. By connecting your Google Cloud resources to Logit.io, you can effortlessly monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot your virtual machines' health in real-time. Moreover, Logit.io also supports an array of Google Cloud services, such as Google Recommendations metrics and Google Pub Sub metrics. By harnessing the power of Logit.io, you can effortlessly manage and optimize these services as well, ensuring your cloud environment remains efficient and secure. Unified integration is a hallmark of Logit.io's GCP logging service.