Phusion Passenger Metrics via Telegraf
Ship your Phusion Passenger Metrics via Telegraf to your Logit.io Stack
Configure Telegraf to ship Phusion Passenger 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 - 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 2 - 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.
# Read metrics of passenger using passenger-status
[[inputs.passenger]]
## Path of passenger-status.
##
## Plugin gather metric via parsing XML output of passenger-status
## More information about the tool:
## https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/admin/apache/overall_status_report.html
##
## If no path is specified, then the plugin simply execute passenger-status
## hopefully it can be found in your PATH
command = "passenger-status -v --show=xml"
Step 3 - 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 4 - Start Telegraf
Windows
telegraf.exe --service start
MacOS
telegraf --config telegraf.conf
Linux
sudo service telegraf start
for systemd installations
systemctl start telegraf
Step 5 - 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 6 - 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 7 - Telegraf Phusion Passenger Overview
For effective monitoring and analysis of Phusion metrics in a distributed environment, a solid and efficient metrics management solution is crucial. Telegraf, an open-source server agent for collecting and reporting metrics, is ideally suited for this role. It can gather Phusion metrics from a multitude of sources, including operational Phusion instances, databases, and other relevant applications.
Telegraf offers a wide range of input plugins, enabling users to collect various metrics such as CPU usage, memory utilization, network traffic, and more. These are all key for understanding Phusion performance. To store and scrutinize these harvested metrics, organizations can employ Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit renowned for its flexible querying language and impressive data visualization capabilities.
Transmitting Phusion metrics from Telegraf to Prometheus involves configuring Telegraf to output metrics in the Prometheus format, and then setting up Prometheus to scrape these metrics from the Telegraf server. This process involves setting up Telegraf to collect Phusion 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 conducted using Grafana. Grafana is a leading open-source platform known for its monitoring and observability capabilities, and is fully compatible with Prometheus. It enables users to create dynamic, interactive dashboards for a deep dive into the metrics data, offering a comprehensive understanding of performance trends and potential issues within the Phusion 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.