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opentsdbedit

This output allows you to pull metrics from your logs and ship them to opentsdb. Opentsdb is an open source tool for storing and graphing metrics.

 

Synopsisedit

This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

opentsdb {
    metrics => ...
}

Available configuration options:

Setting Input type Required Default value

codec

codec

No

"plain"

host

string

No

"localhost"

metrics

array

Yes

port

number

No

4242

workers

number

No

1

Detailsedit

 

codecedit

  • 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.

debug (DEPRECATED)edit

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

Enable debugging.

exclude_tags (DEPRECATED)edit

  • 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.

hostedit

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

The address of the opentsdb server.

metricsedit

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

The metric(s) to use. This supports dynamic strings like %{source_host} for metric names and also for values. This is an array field with key of the metric name, value of the metric value, and multiple tag,values . Example:

    [
      "%{host}/uptime",
      %{uptime_1m} " ,
      "hostname" ,
      "%{host}
      "anotherhostname" ,
      "%{host}
    ]

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

portedit

  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 4242

The port to connect on your graphite server.

tags (DEPRECATED)edit

  • 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)edit

  • 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.

workersedit

  • 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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