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send_collectd_metrics

A puppet module that configures write_http plugin of collectd to send the system metrics to SignalFx
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  • 0.1.9 (latest)
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released Sep 9th 2015
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mod 'udaysagar2177-send_collectd_metrics', '0.1.9'
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udaysagar2177/send_collectd_metrics — version 0.1.9 Sep 9th 2015

puppet_send_collectd_metrics

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Setup - The basics of getting started with send_collectd_metrics
  3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality

Overview

The send_collectd_metrics module configures the write_http plugin of collectd to send your system metrics to SignalFx, a monitoring platform.

Setup

Install the latest release of send_collectd_metrics module from SignalFx using:

puppet module install signalfx/send_collectd_metrics

What send_collectd_metrics affects

The send_collectd_metrics module configures only the write_http plugin. It does not configure any other plugins.

It is recommended to include the install_collectd and configure_collectd_plugins modules before this module if you don't have any existing collectd on your systems to get the latest collectd from SignalFx repositories.

Usage

The send_collectd_metrics module accepts few parameters to configure the write_http plugin:

class {'send_collectd_metrics':
    api_token => "<YOUR-API-TOKEN>",
    dimension_list => {"key" => "value"},
    set_aws_instanceId => false,
    signalfx_url => "https://ingest.signalfx.com/v1/collectd"
}
  • In order to send data, insert your api-token.
  • You can set custom dimensions on all of the metrics being sent by the collectd to SignalFx. This can be done by entering your custom dimensions into the dimension_list hash map.
    For example: If one of your servers is running kafka, you can attach a custom dimension into the hash map as:
    dimension_list => {"serverType" => "kafka"}
  • You can attach AWS instance id (this module pulls it automatically) by setting the set_aws_instanceId as true
  • You can also configure the target url if you choose to use a proxy to send metrics to SignalFx.