good-influx

InfluxDB broadcasting for Good process monitor, based on good-http. It can write to HTTP or UDP Telegraf endpoints.

Good Influx will format your Good data according to the InfluxDB Line Protocol.

Usage

good-influx is a write stream used to send events to InfluxDB endpoints in batches. If your endpoint is http:// or https://, it makes a "POST" request with a plain-text payload to the supplied endpoint. It will make a final "POST" request to the endpoint to flush the rest of the data on "finish".

If the supplied endpoint is a udp:// endpoint then good-influx will send the stats via UDP. This may improve application performance since UDP does not wait for a response. Though it does fail silently, so you run the risk that your stats are failing to record and you don't know about it.

Example

const Hapi = require('hapi');
const server = new Hapi.Server();
server.connection();
 
const options = {
    ops: {
        interval: 1000
    },
    reporters: {
    	// Send only 'ops' events to InfluxDB
        influx: [{
            module: 'good-squeeze',
            name: 'Squeeze',
            args: [{ ops: '*' }]
        }, {
            module: 'good-influx',
            args: ['http://localhost:8086/write?db=good', {
                threshold: 10,
                metadata: {
                    serviceName: 'SuperAwesomeService',
                    dataCenter: 'Banff'
                },
                prefix: ['my', 'awesome', 'service']
            }]
        }]
    }
};
 
server.register({
    register: require('good'),
    options: options
}, (err) => {
 
    if (err) {
        console.error(err);
    } else {
        server.start(() => {
            console.info('Server started at ' + server.info.uri);
        });
    }
});

Good Influx

GoodInflux (endpoint, config)

Creates a new GoodInflux object where:

• endpoint - full path to remote server's InfluxDB HTTP API end point to transmit InfluxDB statistics (e.g. http://localhost:8086/write?db=good)
• config - configuration object (Optional)
  • [threshold] - number of events to hold before transmission. Defaults to 5. Set to 0 to have every event start transmission instantly.
    • Note that for UDP, threshold above 5 will be set to 5. Why? Because if UDP packets get too big they fail to transmit.
  • [errorThreshold] - number of erroring message sends to tolerate before the plugin fails. Default is 0.
  • [wreck] - configuration object to pass into wreck. Defaults to { timeout: 60000, headers: {} }. content-type is always "text/plain".
  • [udpType] - UDP type; defaults to udp4. Probably not necessary to change, but more documentation is available on the NodeJS Dgram Documentation
  • [metadata] - arbitrary tags you would like to add to your InfluxDB stats. This helps you query InfluxDB for the statistics you want.
  • [prefix] - applied to each measurement name. Useful if you want to limit the scope of your measurements to a specific service. You can specify a string, or an array of strings (recommended). Arrays will be joined by prefixDelimiter below. For example, using prefix: ['my', 'awesome', 'service'] the ops measurement will be renamed to my/awesome/service/ops
  • [prefixDelimiter] - Used to delimit measurement prefix arrays defined in prefix above. Defaults to /.

Series

Error

time	host	pid	error	id	method	url

Log

time	host	pid	data	tags

Ops

Each Ops event from the Hapi Good plugin is separated out into 5 events for InfluxDB. Why? Because ops events are multilayered, so we can't capture the full information in one event.

Standard tags: host,pid, metadata (optional)

event	numEvents	tags	fields
ops	1	Standard	os.cpu1m, os.cpu5m, os.cpu15m, os.freemem, os.totalmem, os.uptime, os.totalmem, proc.delay, proc.heapTotal, proc.heapUsed, proc.rss, proc.uptime
ops_requests	1 per port	Standard + port	requestsTotal, requestsDisconnects, requests200* -- one field for each status code
ops_concurrents	1 per port	Standard + port	concurrents
ops_responseTimes	1 per port	Standard + port	avg, max
ops_sockets	1	Standard	httpTotal, httpsTotal

Request

time	host	pid	data	id	method	path	tags

Response

time	host	pid	httpVersion	id	instance	labels	method	path	query

referer	remoteAddress	responseTime	statusCode	userAgent

License

MIT