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diff --git a/exporting/graphite/metadata.yaml b/exporting/graphite/metadata.yaml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ad8c7539b --- /dev/null +++ b/exporting/graphite/metadata.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,212 @@ +# yamllint disable rule:line-length +--- +- &graphexport + id: 'export-graphite' + meta: &meta + name: 'Graphite' + link: 'https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/' + categories: + - export + icon_filename: 'graphite.png' + keywords: + - exporter + - graphite + - remote write + - time series + overview: + exporter_description: | + Use the Graphite connector for the exporting engine to archive your Netdata metrics to Graphite providers for long-term storage, + further analysis, or correlation with data from other sources. + exporter_limitations: '' + setup: + prerequisites: + list: + - title: '' + description: | + - You have already installed Netdata and Graphite. + configuration: + file: + name: 'exporting.conf' + options: + description: 'The following options can be defined for this exporter.' + folding: + title: 'Config options' + enabled: true + list: + - name: 'enabled' + default_value: 'no' + description: 'Enables or disables an exporting connector instance (yes|no).' + required: true + - name: 'destination' + default_value: 'no' + description: 'Accepts a space separated list of hostnames, IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) and ports to connect to. Netdata will use the first available to send the metrics.' + required: true + detailed_description: | + The format of each item in this list, is: [PROTOCOL:]IP[:PORT]. + - PROTOCOL can be udp or tcp. tcp is the default and only supported by the current exporting engine. + - IP can be XX.XX.XX.XX (IPv4), or [XX:XX...XX:XX] (IPv6). For IPv6 you can to enclose the IP in [] to separate it from the port. + - PORT can be a number of a service name. If omitted, the default port for the exporting connector will be used. + + Example IPv4: + ```yaml + destination = 10.11.14.2:2003 10.11.14.3:4242 10.11.14.4:2003 + ``` + Example IPv6 and IPv4 together: + ```yaml + destination = [ffff:...:0001]:2003 10.11.12.1:2003 + ``` + When multiple servers are defined, Netdata will try the next one when the previous one fails. + - name: 'username' + default_value: 'my_username' + description: 'Username for HTTP authentication' + required: false + - name: 'password' + default_value: 'my_password' + description: 'Password for HTTP authentication' + required: false + - name: 'data source' + default_value: '' + description: 'Selects the kind of data that will be sent to the external database. (as collected|average|sum)' + required: false + - name: 'hostname' + default_value: '[global].hostname' + description: 'The hostname to be used for sending data to the external database server.' + required: false + - name: 'prefix' + default_value: 'netdata' + description: 'The prefix to add to all metrics.' + required: false + - name: 'update every' + default_value: '10' + description: | + Frequency of sending sending data to the external database, in seconds. + required: false + detailed_description: | + Netdata will add some randomness to this number, to prevent stressing the external server when many Netdata servers + send data to the same database. This randomness does not affect the quality of the data, only the time they are sent. + - name: 'buffer on failures' + default_value: '10' + description: | + The number of iterations (`update every` seconds) to buffer data, when the external database server is not available. + required: false + detailed_description: | + If the server fails to receive the data after that many failures, data loss on the connector instance is expected (Netdata will also log it). + - name: 'timeout ms' + default_value: '20000' + description: 'The timeout in milliseconds to wait for the external database server to process the data.' + required: false + - name: 'send hosts matching' + default_value: 'localhost *' + description: | + Hosts filter. Determines which hosts will be sent to the external database. The syntax is [simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern#simple-patterns). + required: false + detailed_description: | + Includes one or more space separated patterns, using * as wildcard (any number of times within each pattern). + The patterns are checked against the hostname (the localhost is always checked as localhost), allowing us to + filter which hosts will be sent to the external database when this Netdata is a central Netdata aggregating multiple hosts. + + A pattern starting with `!` gives a negative match. So to match all hosts named `*db*` except hosts containing `*child*`, + use `!*child* *db*` (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the hostname will be used - positive or negative). + - name: 'send charts matching' + default_value: '*' + description: | + One or more space separated patterns (use * as wildcard) checked against both chart id and chart name. + required: false + detailed_description: | + A pattern starting with ! gives a negative match. So to match all charts named apps.* except charts ending in *reads, + use !*reads apps.* (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the chart id or the chart name will be used, + positive or negative). There is also a URL parameter filter that can be used while querying allmetrics. The URL parameter + has a higher priority than the configuration option. + - name: 'send names instead of ids' + default_value: '' + description: 'Controls the metric names Netdata should send to the external database (yes|no).' + required: false + detailed_description: | + Netdata supports names and IDs for charts and dimensions. Usually IDs are unique identifiers as read by the system and names + are human friendly labels (also unique). Most charts and metrics have the same ID and name, but in several cases they are + different : disks with device-mapper, interrupts, QoS classes, statsd synthetic charts, etc. + - name: 'send configured labels' + default_value: '' + description: 'Controls if host labels defined in the `[host labels]` section in `netdata.conf` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).' + required: false + - name: 'send automatic labels' + default_value: '' + description: 'Controls if automatically created labels, like `_os_name` or `_architecture` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).' + required: false + examples: + folding: + enabled: true + title: '' + list: + - name: 'Example configuration' + folding: + enabled: false + description: 'Basic configuration' + config: | + [graphite:netdata] + enabled = yes + destination = localhost:2003 + - name: 'Configuration with HTTPS and HTTP authentication' + folding: + enabled: false + description: 'Add `:https` modifier to the connector type if you need to use the TLS/SSL protocol. For example: `remote_write:https:my_instance`.' + config: | + [graphite:netdata] + enabled = yes + destination = localhost:2003 + username = my_username + password = my_password + - name: 'Detailed Configuration for a remote, secure host' + folding: + enabled: false + description: 'Add `:https` modifier to the connector type if you need to use the TLS/SSL protocol. For example: `remote_write:https:my_instance`.' + config: | + [graphite:https:netdata] + enabled = yes + username = my_username + password = my_password + destination = 10.10.1.114:2003 + # data source = average + # prefix = netdata + # hostname = my_hostname + # update every = 10 + # buffer on failures = 10 + # timeout ms = 20000 + # send names instead of ids = yes + # send charts matching = * + # send hosts matching = localhost * +- <<: *graphexport + id: 'export-blueflood' + meta: + <<: *meta + name: Blueflood + link: http://blueflood.io/ + icon_filename: 'blueflood.png' + keywords: + - export + - Blueflood + - graphite +- <<: *graphexport + id: 'export-influxdb' + meta: + <<: *meta + name: InfluxDB + link: https://www.influxdata.com/ + icon_filename: 'influxdb.svg' + keywords: + - InfluxDB + - Influx + - export + - graphite +- <<: *graphexport + id: 'export-kairosdb' + meta: + <<: *meta + name: KairosDB + link: https://kairosdb.github.io/ + icon_filename: 'kairos.png' + keywords: + - KairosDB + - kairos + - export + - graphite |