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metriccatcher

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metriccatcher

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This is a community-maintained plugin! It does not ship with Logstash by default, but it is easy to install by running bin/plugin install logstash-output-metriccatcher.

This output ships metrics to MetricCatcher, allowing you to utilize Coda Hale’s Metrics.

More info on MetricCatcher: https://github.com/clearspring/MetricCatcher

At Clearspring, we use it to count the response codes from Apache logs:

    metriccatcher {
        host => "localhost"
        port => "1420"
        type => "apache-access"
        fields => [ "response" ]
        meter => {
            "%{host}.apache.response.%{response}" => "1"
            }
    }

 

Synopsis

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This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

metriccatcher {
}

Available configuration options:

Setting Input type Required Default value

biased

hash

No

codec

codec

No

"plain"

counter

hash

No

gauge

hash

No

host

string

No

"localhost"

meter

hash

No

port

number

No

1420

timer

hash

No

uniform

hash

No

workers

number

No

1

Details

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biased

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  • Value type is hash
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The metrics to send. This supports dynamic strings like %{host} for metric names and also for values. This is a hash field with key of the metric name, value of the metric value.

The value will be coerced to a floating point value. Values which cannot be coerced will zero (0)

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.

counter

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  • Value type is hash
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The metrics to send. This supports dynamic strings like %{host} for metric names and also for values. This is a hash field with key of the metric name, value of the metric value. Example:

  counter => { "%{host}.apache.hits.%{response} => "1" }

The value will be coerced to a floating point value. Values which cannot be coerced will zero (0)

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.

gauge

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  • Value type is hash
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The metrics to send. This supports dynamic strings like %{host} for metric names and also for values. This is a hash field with key of the metric name, value of the metric value.

The value will be coerced to a floating point value. Values which cannot be coerced will zero (0)

host

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

The address of the MetricCatcher

meter

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  • Value type is hash
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The metrics to send. This supports dynamic strings like %{host} for metric names and also for values. This is a hash field with key of the metric name, value of the metric value.

The value will be coerced to a floating point value. Values which cannot be coerced will zero (0)

port

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  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 1420

The port to connect on your MetricCatcher

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.

timer

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  • Value type is hash
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The metrics to send. This supports dynamic strings like %{host} for metric names and also for values. This is a hash field with key of the metric name, value of the metric value. Example:

  timer => { "%{host}.apache.response_time => "%{response_time}" }

The value will be coerced to a floating point value. Values which cannot be coerced will zero (0)

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.

uniform

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  • Value type is hash
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The metrics to send. This supports dynamic strings like %{host} for metric names and also for values. This is a hash field with key of the metric name, value of the metric value.

The value 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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