This plugin supports pushing metrics into an InfluxDB instance.

It's used in the Snap framework.

1. Getting Started

• System Requirements
• Installation
• Configuration and Usage

2. Documentation

• Collected Metrics
• Examples
• Roadmap

3. Community Support
4. Contributing
5. License
6. Acknowledgements

• golang 1.6+ (needed only for building)

Support Matrix

• InfluxDB (tested with InfluxDB 1.0) does not support uint64 as type of data. Metrics with uint64 type are converted to int64 by Snap publisher plugin. uint64 values higher than maximum int64 value are converted to negative value and saved in InfluxDB. Overflow cases are logged.

You can get the pre-built binaries for your OS and architecture at plugin's GitHub Releases page.

Fork https://github.com/intelsdi-x/snap-plugin-publisher-influxdb

Clone repo into $GOPATH/src/github.com/intelsdi-x/:

$ git clone https://github.com/<yourGithubID>/snap-plugin-publisher-influxdb.git

Build the plugin by running make within the cloned repo:

$ make

This builds the plugin in ./build

• Set up the Snap framework

The plugin expects you to provide the following parameters:

• host
• database
• user
• password

You can also set the following options if needed:

• skip-verify defaults to false (boolean). Set to true to complain if the certificate used is not issued by a trusted CA.
• precision defaults to s (string). The value can be changed to any of the following: n,u,ms,s,m,h. This will determine the precision of timestamps.
• isMultiFields defaults to false (boolean). When it's true, plugin groups common namespaces, those that differ at the leaf and have same tags including values, into one data point with multiple influx fields.
• port defaults to 8086 which works with http and https. The port is 4444 for udp in the example.
• scheme defaults to http.
  • http
  • https
  • udp
• retention defaults to autogen, it indicates retention policy for database with specified duration which determines how long InfluxDB keeps the data, for more information read Retention Policy Management.

See examples/tasks folder for examples.

Here are samples to illustrate the differences for isMultiFields flag. When isMultiFields is false which is the default setting, you have to query each measurement. While isMultiFields is true, plugin groups the common namespaces, those that differ at the leaf and have same tags including values, into one data point with multiple influx fields; you query the common namespace.

Sample isMultiField=false

select * from "/intel/psutil/load/load1"

Sample isMultiField=true

select * from "/intel/psutil/load"

There isn't a current roadmap for this plugin, but it is in active development. As we launch this plugin, we do not have any outstanding requirements for the next release.

If you have a feature request, please add it as an issue and/or submit a pull request.

This repository is one of many plugins in Snap, a powerful telemetry framework. See the full project at http://github.com/intelsdi-x/snap To reach out to other users, head to the main framework

We love contributions!

There's more than one way to give back, from examples to blogs to code updates. See our recommended process in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Snap, along with this plugin, is an Open Source software released under the Apache 2.0 License.

• Author: Justin Guidroz
• Author: Joel Cooklin

And thank you! Your contribution, through code and participation, is incredibly important to us.