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diff --git a/exporting/opentsdb/metadata.yaml b/exporting/opentsdb/metadata.yaml deleted file mode 100644 index 505c8c599..000000000 --- a/exporting/opentsdb/metadata.yaml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,176 +0,0 @@ -# yamllint disable rule:line-length ---- -id: 'export-opentsdb' -meta: - name: 'OpenTSDB' - link: 'https://github.com/OpenTSDB/opentsdb' - categories: - - export - icon_filename: 'opentsdb.png' -keywords: - - exporter - - OpenTSDB - - scalable time series -overview: - exporter_description: | - Use the OpenTSDB connector for the exporting engine to archive your Netdata metrics to OpenTSDB databases for long-term storage, - further analysis, or correlation with data from other sources. - exporter_limitations: '' -setup: - prerequisites: - list: - - title: '' - description: | - - OpenTSDB and Netdata, installed, configured and operational. - 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 (opentsdb = 4242). - - Example IPv4: - ```yaml - destination = 10.11.14.2:4242 10.11.14.3:4242 10.11.14.4:4242 - ``` - 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: '2 * update_every * 1000' - 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 OpenTSDB. 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: 'Minimal configuration' - folding: - enabled: false - description: | - Add `:http` or `:https` modifiers to the connector type if you need to use other than a plaintext protocol. - For example: `opentsdb:http:my_opentsdb_instance`, `opentsdb:https:my_opentsdb_instance`. - config: | - [opentsdb:my_opentsdb_instance] - enabled = yes - destination = localhost:4242 - - name: 'HTTP authentication' - folding: - enabled: false - description: '' - config: | - [opentsdb:my_opentsdb_instance] - enabled = yes - destination = localhost:4242 - username = my_username - password = my_password - - name: 'Using `send hosts matching`' - folding: - enabled: false - description: '' - config: | - [opentsdb:my_opentsdb_instance] - enabled = yes - destination = localhost:4242 - send hosts matching = localhost * - - name: 'Using `send charts matching`' - folding: - enabled: false - description: '' - config: | - [opentsdb:my_opentsdb_instance] - enabled = yes - destination = localhost:4242 - send charts matching = * |