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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2022-11-30 18:47:05 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2022-11-30 18:47:05 +0000 |
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diff --git a/collectors/python.d.plugin/pandas/README.md b/collectors/python.d.plugin/pandas/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..141549478 --- /dev/null +++ b/collectors/python.d.plugin/pandas/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +<!-- +title: "Pandas" +custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/collectors/python.d.plugin/pandas/README.md +--> + +# Pandas Netdata Collector + +<a href="https://pandas.pydata.org/" target="_blank"> + <img src="https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/_static/pandas.svg" alt="Pandas" width="100px" height="50px" /> + </a> + +A python collector using [pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/) to pull data and do pandas based +preprocessing before feeding to Netdata. + +## Requirements + +This collector depends on some Python (Python 3 only) packages that can usually be installed via `pip` or `pip3`. + +```bash +sudo pip install pandas requests +``` + +## Configuration + +Below is an example configuration to query some json weather data from [Open-Meteo](https://open-meteo.com), +do some data wrangling on it and save in format as expected by Netdata. + +```yaml +# example pulling some hourly temperature data +temperature: + name: "temperature" + update_every: 3 + chart_configs: + - name: "temperature_by_city" + title: "Temperature By City" + family: "temperature.today" + context: "pandas.temperature" + type: "line" + units: "Celsius" + df_steps: > + pd.DataFrame.from_dict( + {city: requests.get( + f'https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude={lat}&longitude={lng}&hourly=temperature_2m' + ).json()['hourly']['temperature_2m'] + for (city,lat,lng) + in [ + ('dublin', 53.3441, -6.2675), + ('athens', 37.9792, 23.7166), + ('london', 51.5002, -0.1262), + ('berlin', 52.5235, 13.4115), + ('paris', 48.8567, 2.3510), + ] + } + ); # use dictionary comprehension to make multiple requests; + df.describe(); # get aggregate stats for each city; + df.transpose()[['mean', 'max', 'min']].reset_index(); # just take mean, min, max; + df.rename(columns={'index':'city'}); # some column renaming; + df.pivot(columns='city').mean().to_frame().reset_index(); # force to be one row per city; + df.rename(columns={0:'degrees'}); # some column renaming; + pd.concat([df, df['city']+'_'+df['level_0']], axis=1); # add new column combining city and summary measurement label; + df.rename(columns={0:'measurement'}); # some column renaming; + df[['measurement', 'degrees']].set_index('measurement'); # just take two columns we want; + df.sort_index(); # sort by city name; + df.transpose(); # transpose so its just one wide row; +``` + +`chart_configs` is a list of dictionary objects where each one defines the sequence of `df_steps` to be run using [`pandas`](https://pandas.pydata.org/), +and the `name`, `title` etc to define the +[CHART variables](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/python.d.plugin#global-variables-order-and-chart) +that will control how the results will look in netdata. + +The example configuration above would result in a `data` dictionary like the below being collected by Netdata +at each time step. They keys in this dictionary will be the +[dimension](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/web#dimensions) names on the chart. + +```javascript +{'athens_max': 26.2, 'athens_mean': 19.45952380952381, 'athens_min': 12.2, 'berlin_max': 17.4, 'berlin_mean': 10.764285714285714, 'berlin_min': 5.7, 'dublin_max': 15.3, 'dublin_mean': 12.008928571428571, 'dublin_min': 6.6, 'london_max': 18.9, 'london_mean': 12.510714285714286, 'london_min': 5.2, 'paris_max': 19.4, 'paris_mean': 12.054166666666665, 'paris_min': 4.8} +``` + +Which, given the above configuration would end up as a chart like below in Netdata. + +![pandas collector temperature example chart](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2178292/195075312-8ce8cf68-5172-48e3-af09-104ffecfcdd6.png) + +## Notes +- Each line in `df_steps` must return a pandas +[DataFrame](https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.html) object (`df`) at each step. +- You can use +[this colab notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VYrddSegZqGtkWGFuiUbMbUk5f3rW6Hi?usp=sharing) +to mock up and work on your `df_steps` iteratively before adding them to your config. +- This collector is expecting one row in the final pandas DataFrame. It is that first row that will be taken +as the most recent values for each dimension on each chart using (`df.to_dict(orient='records')[0]`). +See [pd.to_dict()](https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.to_dict.html). |