Fluentd and Clickhouse Integration
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Input and output integration overview
The Fluentd Input Plugin gathers metrics from Fluentd’s in_monitor plugin endpoint. It provides insights into various plugin metrics while allowing for custom configurations to reduce series cardinality.
Telegraf’s SQL plugin sends collected metrics to an SQL database using a straightforward table schema and dynamic column generation. When configured for ClickHouse, it adjusts DSN formatting and type conversion settings to ensure seamless data integration.
Integration details
Fluentd
This plugin gathers metrics from the Fluentd plugin endpoint provided by the in_monitor plugin. It reads data from the /api/plugin.json resource and allows exclusion of specific plugins based on their type.
Clickhouse
Telegraf’s SQL plugin is engineered to write metric data into an SQL database by dynamically creating tables and columns based on incoming metrics. When configured for ClickHouse, it utilizes the clickhouse-go v1.5.4 driver, which employs a unique DSN format and a set of specialized type conversion rules to map Telegraf’s data types directly to ClickHouse’s native types. This approach ensures optimal storage and retrieval performance in high-throughput environments, making it well-suited for real-time analytics and large-scale data warehousing. The dynamic schema creation and precise type mapping enable detailed time-series data logging, crucial for monitoring modern, distributed systems.
Configuration
Fluentd
[[inputs.fluentd]]
## This plugin reads information exposed by fluentd (using /api/plugins.json endpoint).
##
## Endpoint:
## - only one URI is allowed
## - https is not supported
endpoint = "http://localhost:24220/api/plugins.json"
## Define which plugins have to be excluded (based on "type" field - e.g. monitor_agent)
exclude = [
"monitor_agent",
"dummy",
]
Clickhouse
[[outputs.sql]]
## Database driver
## Valid options include mssql, mysql, pgx, sqlite, snowflake, clickhouse
driver = "clickhouse"
## Data source name
## For ClickHouse, the DSN follows the clickhouse-go v1.5.4 format.
## Example DSN: "tcp://localhost:9000?debug=true"
data_source_name = "tcp://localhost:9000?debug=true"
## Timestamp column name
timestamp_column = "timestamp"
## Table creation template
## Available template variables:
## {TABLE} - table name as a quoted identifier
## {TABLELITERAL} - table name as a quoted string literal
## {COLUMNS} - column definitions (list of quoted identifiers and types)
table_template = "CREATE TABLE {TABLE} ({COLUMNS})"
## Table existence check template
## Available template variables:
## {TABLE} - table name as a quoted identifier
table_exists_template = "SELECT 1 FROM {TABLE} LIMIT 1"
## Initialization SQL (optional)
init_sql = ""
## Maximum amount of time a connection may be idle. "0s" means connections are never closed due to idle time.
connection_max_idle_time = "0s"
## Maximum amount of time a connection may be reused. "0s" means connections are never closed due to age.
connection_max_lifetime = "0s"
## Maximum number of connections in the idle connection pool. 0 means unlimited.
connection_max_idle = 2
## Maximum number of open connections to the database. 0 means unlimited.
connection_max_open = 0
## Metric type to SQL type conversion for ClickHouse.
## The conversion maps Telegraf metric types to ClickHouse native data types.
[outputs.sql.convert]
conversion_style = "literal"
integer = "Int64"
text = "String"
timestamp = "DateTime"
defaultvalue = "String"
unsigned = "UInt64"
bool = "UInt8"
real = "Float64"
Input and output integration examples
Fluentd
- Basic Configuration: Set up the Fluentd Input Plugin to gather metrics from your Fluentd instance’s monitoring endpoint, ensuring you are able to track performance and usage statistics.
- Excluding Plugins: Use the
exclude
option to ignore specific plugins’ metrics that are not necessary for your monitoring needs, streamlining data collection and focusing on what matters. - Custom Plugin ID: Implement the
@id
parameter in your Fluentd configuration to maintain a consistentplugin_id
, which helps avoid issues with high series cardinality during frequent restarts.
Clickhouse
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Real-Time Analytics for High-Volume Data: Use the plugin to feed streaming metrics from large-scale systems into ClickHouse. This setup supports ultra-fast query performance and near real-time analytics, ideal for monitoring high-traffic applications.
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Time-Series Data Warehousing: Integrate the plugin with ClickHouse to create a robust time-series data warehouse. This use case allows organizations to store detailed historical metrics and perform complex queries for trend analysis and capacity planning.
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Scalable Monitoring in Distributed Environments: Leverage the plugin to dynamically create tables per metric type in ClickHouse, making it easier to manage and query data from a multitude of distributed systems without prior schema definitions.
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Optimized Storage for IoT Deployments: Deploy the plugin to ingest data from IoT sensors into ClickHouse. Its efficient schema creation and native type mapping facilitate the handling of massive volumes of data, enabling real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance.
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Powerful Performance, Limitless Scale
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.
See Ways to Get Started
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