Ceph and Splunk Integration
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Input and output integration overview
The Ceph plugin for Telegraf helps in gathering performance metrics from both MON and OSD nodes in a Ceph storage cluster for effective monitoring and management.
This output plugin facilitates direct streaming of Telegraf collected metrics into Splunk via the HTTP Event Collector, enabling easy integration with Splunk’s powerful analytics platform.
Integration details
Ceph
The Ceph Storage Telegraf plugin is designed to collect performance metrics from Monitor (MON) and Object Storage Daemon (OSD) nodes within a Ceph storage cluster. Ceph, a highly scalable storage system, integrates its metrics collection through this plugin, facilitating easy monitoring of its components. With the introduction of this plugin in the 13.x Mimic release, users can effectively gather detailed insights into the performance and health of their Ceph infrastructure. It functions by scanning configured socket directories for specific Ceph service socket files, executing commands via the Ceph administrative interface, and parsing the returned JSON data for metrics. The metrics are organized based on top-level keys, allowing for efficient monitoring and analysis of cluster performance. This plugin provides valuable capabilities for managing and maintaining the performance of a Ceph cluster by allowing administrators to understand system behavior and identify potential issues proactively.
Splunk
Use Telegraf to easily collect and aggregate metrics from many different sources and send them to Splunk. Utilizing the HTTP output plugin combined with the specialized Splunk metrics serializer, this configuration ensures efficient data ingestion into Splunk’s metrics indexes. The HEC is an advanced mechanism provided by Splunk designed to reliably collect data at scale via HTTP or HTTPS, providing critical capabilities for security, monitoring, and analytics workloads. Telegraf’s integration with Splunk HEC streamlines operations by leveraging standard HTTP protocols, built-in authentication, and structured data serialization, optimizing metrics ingestion and enabling immediate actionable insights.
Configuration
Ceph
[[inputs.ceph]]
## This is the recommended interval to poll. Too frequent and you
## will lose data points due to timeouts during rebalancing and recovery
interval = '1m'
## All configuration values are optional, defaults are shown below
## location of ceph binary
ceph_binary = "/usr/bin/ceph"
## directory in which to look for socket files
socket_dir = "/var/run/ceph"
## prefix of MON and OSD socket files, used to determine socket type
mon_prefix = "ceph-mon"
osd_prefix = "ceph-osd"
mds_prefix = "ceph-mds"
rgw_prefix = "ceph-client"
## suffix used to identify socket files
socket_suffix = "asok"
## Ceph user to authenticate as, ceph will search for the corresponding
## keyring e.g. client.admin.keyring in /etc/ceph, or the explicit path
## defined in the client section of ceph.conf for example:
##
## [client.telegraf]
## keyring = /etc/ceph/client.telegraf.keyring
##
## Consult the ceph documentation for more detail on keyring generation.
ceph_user = "client.admin"
## Ceph configuration to use to locate the cluster
ceph_config = "/etc/ceph/ceph.conf"
## Whether to gather statistics via the admin socket
gather_admin_socket_stats = true
## Whether to gather statistics via ceph commands, requires ceph_user
## and ceph_config to be specified
gather_cluster_stats = false
Splunk
[[outputs.http]]
## Splunk HTTP Event Collector endpoint
url = "https://splunk.example.com:8088/services/collector"
## HTTP method to use
method = "POST"
## Splunk authentication token
headers = {"Authorization" = "Splunk YOUR_SPLUNK_HEC_TOKEN"}
## Serializer for formatting metrics specifically for Splunk
data_format = "splunkmetric"
## Optional parameters
# timeout = "5s"
# insecure_skip_verify = false
# tls_ca = "/path/to/ca.pem"
# tls_cert = "/path/to/cert.pem"
# tls_key = "/path/to/key.pem"
Input and output integration examples
Ceph
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Dynamic Monitoring Dashboard: Utilize the Ceph plugin to create a real-time monitoring dashboard that visually represents the performance metrics of your Ceph cluster. By integrating these metrics into a centralized dashboard, system administrators can gain immediate insights into the health of the storage infrastructure, which aids in quickly identifying and addressing potential issues before they escalate.
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Automated Alerting System: Implement the Ceph plugin in conjunction with an alerting solution to automatically notify administrators of performance degradation or operational issues within the Ceph cluster. By defining thresholds for key metrics, organizations can ensure prompt response actions, thereby improving overall system reliability and performance.
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Performance Benchmarking: Use the metrics collected by this plugin to conduct performance benchmarking tests across different configurations or hardware setups of your Ceph storage cluster. This process can assist organizations in identifying optimal configurations that enhance performance and resource utilization, promoting a more efficient storage environment.
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Capacity Planning and Forecasting: Integrate the metrics gathered from the Ceph storage plugin into broader data analytics and reporting tools to facilitate capacity planning. By analyzing historical metrics, organizations can forecast future utilization trends, enabling informed decisions about scaling storage resources effectively.
Splunk
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Real-Time Security Analytics: Utilize this plugin to stream security-related metrics from various applications into Splunk in real-time. Organizations can detect threats instantly by correlating data streams across systems, significantly reducing detection and response times.
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Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring: Integrate Telegraf to consolidate metrics from multi-cloud environments directly into Splunk, enabling comprehensive visibility and operational intelligence. This unified monitoring allows teams to detect performance issues quickly and streamline cloud resource management.
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Dynamic Capacity Planning: Deploy the plugin to continuously push resource metrics from container orchestration platforms (like Kubernetes) into Splunk. Leveraging Splunk’s analytics capabilities, teams can automate predictive scaling and resource allocation, avoiding resource bottlenecks and minimizing costs.
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Automated Incident Response Workflows: Combine this plugin with Splunk’s alerting system to create automated incident response workflows. Metrics collected by Telegraf trigger real-time alerts and automated remediation scripts, ensuring rapid resolution and maintaining high system availability.
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Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-velocity data. Any data is more valuable when you think of it as time series data. with InfluxDB, the #1 time series platform built to scale with Telegraf.
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