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+# yamllint disable rule:line-length
+---
+id: 'export-json'
+meta:
+ name: 'JSON'
+ link: ''
+ categories:
+ - export
+ icon_filename: 'json.svg'
+keywords:
+ - exporter
+ - json
+overview:
+ exporter_description: |
+ Use the JSON connector for the exporting engine to archive your agent's metrics to JSON document databases for long-term storage,
+ further analysis, or correlation with data from other sources
+ exporter_limitations: ''
+setup:
+ prerequisites:
+ list:
+ - title: ''
+ description: ''
+ 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: 'pubsub.googleapis.com'
+ 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 = localhost:5448
+ ```
+ 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 the external database. The syntax is [simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/src/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: 'Basic configuration'
+ folding:
+ enabled: false
+ description: ''
+ config: |
+ [json:my_json_instance]
+ enabled = yes
+ destination = localhost:5448
+ - 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: `json:https:my_json_instance`.'
+ config: |
+ [json:my_json_instance]
+ enabled = yes
+ destination = localhost:5448
+ username = my_username
+ password = my_password