System Metrics via Telegraf
Ship your System Metrics via Telegraf to your Logit.io Stack
Configure Telegraf to ship system 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 from the previous step.
# Read metrics about cpu usage
[[inputs.cpu]]
## Whether to report per-cpu stats or not
percpu = true
## Whether to report total system cpu stats or not
totalcpu = true
## If true collect raw cpu time metrics
collect_cpu_time = true
## If true compute and report the sum of all non-idle cpu states
report_active = true
# Read metrics about memory usage
[[inputs.mem]]
# Read metrics about system load & uptime
[[inputs.system]]
namepass = ["system"]
# Read metrics about disk usage by mount point
[[inputs.disk]]
## By default, telegraf gather stats for all mountpoints.
## Setting mountpoints will restrict the stats to the specified mountpoints.
# mount_points = ["/"]
## Ignore some mountpoints by filesystem type. For example (dev)tmpfs (usually
## present on /run, /var/run, /dev/shm or /dev).
ignore_fs = ["tmpfs", "devtmpfs"]
[[inputs.diskio]]
[[inputs.net]]
[[inputs.processes]]
[[inputs.procstat]]
pattern = ".*"
fieldpass = ["cpu_usage", "memory_rss"]
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 system metrics Overview
In order to effectively monitor and analyze system metrics in a distributed environment, it's essential to have a reliable and efficient metrics management solution. Telegraf is an open-source metrics collection agent that can be used to gather system metrics from various sources, including operating systems, databases, and other applications.
Telegraf provides a wide range of input plugins that allow users to collect metrics from different sources, including CPU usage, memory usage, network activity, and more. To store and query the collected metrics, organizations can use Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting system that supports a flexible querying language and graphical visualization of data.
To ship system metrics from Telegraf to Prometheus, organizations can configure Telegraf to output metrics in the Prometheus format, and then use Prometheus to scrape the metrics from the Telegraf server. This process involves setting up Telegraf to collect metrics from various sources and output them in the Prometheus format, configuring Prometheus to scrape the metrics from the Telegraf server, and visualizing the data using Prometheus' flexible querying and graphical visualization capabilities.
In summary, using Telegraf to ship system metrics to Prometheus is a reliable and efficient metrics management solution for distributed environments. By configuring Telegraf to output metrics in the Prometheus format and using Prometheus to scrape the metrics from the Telegraf server, organizations can gain insights into system performance and take action to optimize and troubleshoot their distributed systems.
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.