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ganglia

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ganglia

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This is a community-maintained plugin!

This output allows you to pull metrics from your logs and ship them to ganglia’s gmond. This is heavily based on the graphite output.

 

Synopsis

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This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

ganglia {
    metric => ...
    value => ...
}

Available configuration options:

Setting Input type Required Default value

codec

codec

No

"plain"

group

string

No

""

host

string

No

"localhost"

lifetime

number

No

300

max_interval

number

No

60

metric

string

Yes

metric_type

string, one of ["string", "int8", "uint8", "int16", "uint16", "int32", "uint32", "float", "double"]

No

"uint8"

port

number

No

8649

slope

string, one of ["zero", "positive", "negative", "both", "unspecified"]

No

"both"

units

string

No

""

value

string

Yes

workers

number

No

1

Details

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codec

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  • Value type is codec
  • Default value is "plain"

The codec used for output data. Output codecs are a convenient method for encoding your data before it leaves the output, without needing a separate filter in your Logstash pipeline.

exclude_tags (DEPRECATED)

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  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value type is array
  • Default value is []

Only handle events without any of these tags. Optional.

group

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  • Value type is string
  • Default value is ""

Metric group

host

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  • Value type is string
  • Default value is "localhost"

The address of the ganglia server.

lifetime

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  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 300

Lifetime in seconds of this metric

max_interval

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  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 60

Maximum time in seconds between gmetric calls for this metric.

metric

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  • This is a required setting.
  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The metric to use. This supports dynamic strings like %{host}

metric_type

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  • Value can be any of: string, int8, uint8, int16, uint16, int32, uint32, float, double
  • Default value is "uint8"

The type of value for this metric.

port

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  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 8649

The port to connect on your ganglia server.

slope

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  • Value can be any of: zero, positive, negative, both, unspecified
  • Default value is "both"

Metric slope, represents metric behavior

tags (DEPRECATED)

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  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value type is array
  • Default value is []

Only handle events with all of these tags. Optional.

type (DEPRECATED)

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  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value type is string
  • Default value is ""

The type to act on. If a type is given, then this output will only act on messages with the same type. See any input plugin’s type attribute for more. Optional.

units

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  • Value type is string
  • Default value is ""

Gmetric units for metric, such as "kb/sec" or "ms" or whatever unit this metric uses.

value

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  • This is a required setting.
  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The value to use. This supports dynamic strings like %{bytes} It will be coerced to a floating point value. Values which cannot be coerced will zero (0)

workers

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  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 1

The number of workers to use for this output. Note that this setting may not be useful for all outputs.

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