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- Azure container_instance metricset
- Azure container_registry metricset
- Azure container_service metricset
- Azure database_account metricset
- Azure monitor metricset
- Azure storage metricset
- Beat module
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- Ceph mgr_osd_perf metricset
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- Ceph mgr_osd_tree metricset
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- Elasticsearch ml_job metricset
- Elasticsearch node metricset
- Elasticsearch node_stats metricset
- Elasticsearch pending_tasks metricset
- Elasticsearch shard metricset
- Enterprise Search module
- Envoyproxy module
- Etcd module
- Google Cloud Platform module
- Google Cloud Platform billing metricset
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- Jolokia module
- Kafka module
- Kibana module
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- Kubernetes state_persistentvolumeclaim metricset
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- Kubernetes state_resourcequota metricset
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- Kubernetes state_statefulset metricset
- Kubernetes state_storageclass metricset
- Kubernetes system metricset
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- KVM module
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- Logstash module
- Memcached module
- Cisco Meraki module
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- MSSQL module
- Munin module
- MySQL module
- NATS module
- Nginx module
- Openmetrics module
- Oracle module
- Panw module
- PHP_FPM module
- PostgreSQL module
- Prometheus module
- RabbitMQ module
- Redis module
- Redis Enterprise module
- SQL module
- Stan module
- Statsd module
- SyncGateway module
- System module
- System core metricset
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- System filesystem metricset
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- System raid metricset
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- System uptime metricset
- System users metricset
- Tomcat module
- Traefik module
- uWSGI module
- vSphere module
- Windows module
- ZooKeeper module
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- IIS fields
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- MongoDB fields
- MSSQL fields
- Munin fields
- MySQL fields
- NATS fields
- Nginx fields
- Openmetrics fields
- Oracle fields
- Panw fields
- PHP_FPM fields
- PostgreSQL fields
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- Redis Enterprise fields
- SQL fields
- Stan fields
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Run Metricbeat on Cloud Foundry
editRun Metricbeat on Cloud Foundry
editYou can use Metricbeat on Cloud Foundry to retrieve and ship metrics.
Create Cloud Foundry credentials
editTo connect to loggregator and receive the logs, Metricbeat requires credentials created with UAA. The uaac
command creates the required credentials for connecting to loggregator.
uaac client add metricbeat --name metricbeat --secret changeme --authorized_grant_types client_credentials,refresh_token --authorities doppler.firehose,cloud_controller.admin_read_only
Use a unique secret: The uaac
command shown here is an example. Remember to
replace changeme
with your secret, and update the metricbeat.yml
file to
use your chosen secret.
Download Cloud Foundry deploy manifests
editYou deploy Metricbeat as an application with no route.
Cloud Foundry requires that 3 files exist inside of a directory to allow Metricbeat to be pushed. The commands below provide the basic steps for getting it up and running.
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-8.17.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf metricbeat-8.17.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz cd metricbeat-8.17.0-linux-x86_64 curl -L -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/beats/8.17/deploy/cloudfoundry/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml curl -L -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/beats/8.17/deploy/cloudfoundry/metricbeat/manifest.yml
You need to modify the metricbeat.yml
file to set the api_address
,
client_id
and client_secret
.
Load Kibana dashboards
editMetricbeat comes packaged with various pre-built Kibana dashboards that you can use to visualize data in Kibana.
If these dashboards are not already loaded into Kibana, you must run the Metricbeat setup
command.
To learn how, see Load Kibana dashboards.
If you are using a different output other than Elasticsearch, such as Logstash, you need to Load the index template manually and Load Kibana dashboards.
Deploy Metricbeat
editTo deploy Metricbeat to Cloud Foundry, run:
cf push
To check the status, run:
$ cf apps name requested state instances memory disk urls metricbeat started 1/1 512M 1G
Metric events should start flowing to Elasticsearch. The events are annotated with metadata added by the add_cloudfoundry_metadata processor.
Scale Metricbeat
editA single instance of Metricbeat can ship more than a hundred thousand events per minute. If your Cloud Foundry deployment is producing more events than Metricbeat can collect and ship, the Firehose will start dropping events, and it will mark Metricbeat as a slow consumer. If the problems persist, Metricbeat may be disconnected from the Firehose. In such cases, you will need to scale Metricbeat to avoid losing events.
The main settings you need to take into account are:
-
The
shard_id
specified in thecloudfoundry
module. The Firehose will divide the events amongst all the Metricbeat instances with the same value for this setting. All instances with the sameshard_id
should have the same configuration. -
Number of Metricbeat instances. When Metricbeat is deployed as a Cloud
Foundry application, it can be scaled up and down like any other application,
with
cf scale
or by specifying the number of instances in the manifest. - Output configuration. In some cases, you can fine-tune the output configuration to improve the events throughput. Some outputs support multiple workers. The number of workers can be changed to take better advantage of the available resources.
Some basic recommendations to adjust these settings when Metricbeat is not able to collect all events:
-
If Metricbeat is hitting its CPU limits, you will need to increase the
number of Metricbeat instances deployed with the same
shard_id
. - If Metricbeat has some spare CPU, there may be some backpressure from the output. Try to increase the number of workers in the output. If this doesn’t help, the bottleneck may be in the network or in the service receiving the events sent by Metricbeat.
- If you need to modify the memory limit of Metricbeat, remember that CPU shares assigned to Cloud Foundry applications depend on the configured memory limit. You may need to check the other recommendations after that.
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