HAProxy and Elasticsearch Integration
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Input and output integration overview
This plugin gathers and reports statistics from HAProxy, a popular open-source load balancer and proxy server, to help in monitoring and optimizing its performance.
The Telegraf Elasticsearch Plugin seamlessly sends metrics to an Elasticsearch server. The plugin handles template creation and dynamic index management, and supports various Elasticsearch-specific features to ensure data is formatted correctly for storage and retrieval.
Integration details
HAProxy
The HAProxy plugin for Telegraf enables users to gather statistics directly from a HAProxy server via its stats socket or HTTP statistics page. HAProxy is a widely employed software load balancer and proxy server that provides high availability and performance for TCP and HTTP applications. By integrating with HAProxy, this plugin allows users to monitor and analyze various performance metrics such as active server counts, request rates, response codes, and session statuses in real-time, facilitating better decision-making and proactive management of network resources. Key features include support for both HTTP and socket-based metrics collection, compatibility with basic authentication for secure access, and configurable options for metric field naming, allowing for customization tailored to user preferences.
Elasticsearch
This plugin writes metrics to Elasticsearch, a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing large amounts of data in near real-time. It is designed to handle Elasticsearch versions 5.x through 7.x and utilizes its dynamic template features to manage data type mapping properly. The plugin supports advanced features such as template management, dynamic index naming, and integration with OpenSearch. It also allows configurations for authentication and health monitoring of the Elasticsearch nodes.
Configuration
HAProxy
[[inputs.haproxy]]
## List of stats endpoints. Metrics can be collected from both http and socket
## endpoints. Examples of valid endpoints:
## - http://myhaproxy.com:1936/haproxy?stats
## - https://myhaproxy.com:8000/stats
## - socket:/run/haproxy/admin.sock
## - /run/haproxy/*.sock
## - tcp://127.0.0.1:1936
##
## Server addresses not starting with 'http://', 'https://', 'tcp://' will be
## treated as possible sockets. When specifying local socket, glob patterns are
## supported.
servers = ["http://myhaproxy.com:1936/haproxy?stats"]
## By default, some of the fields are renamed from what haproxy calls them.
## Setting this option to true results in the plugin keeping the original
## field names.
# keep_field_names = false
## Optional TLS Config
# tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
# tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
# tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
# insecure_skip_verify = false
Elasticsearch
[[outputs.elasticsearch]]
## The full HTTP endpoint URL for your Elasticsearch instance
## Multiple urls can be specified as part of the same cluster,
## this means that only ONE of the urls will be written to each interval
urls = [ "http://node1.es.example.com:9200" ] # required.
## Elasticsearch client timeout, defaults to "5s" if not set.
timeout = "5s"
## Set to true to ask Elasticsearch a list of all cluster nodes,
## thus it is not necessary to list all nodes in the urls config option
enable_sniffer = false
## Set to true to enable gzip compression
enable_gzip = false
## Set the interval to check if the Elasticsearch nodes are available
## Setting to "0s" will disable the health check (not recommended in production)
health_check_interval = "10s"
## Set the timeout for periodic health checks.
# health_check_timeout = "1s"
## HTTP basic authentication details.
## HTTP basic authentication details
# username = "telegraf"
# password = "mypassword"
## HTTP bearer token authentication details
# auth_bearer_token = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9"
## Index Config
## The target index for metrics (Elasticsearch will create if it not exists).
## You can use the date specifiers below to create indexes per time frame.
## The metric timestamp will be used to decide the destination index name
# %Y - year (2016)
# %y - last two digits of year (00..99)
# %m - month (01..12)
# %d - day of month (e.g., 01)
# %H - hour (00..23)
# %V - week of the year (ISO week) (01..53)
## Additionally, you can specify a tag name using the notation {{tag_name}}
## which will be used as part of the index name. If the tag does not exist,
## the default tag value will be used.
# index_name = "telegraf-{{host}}-%Y.%m.%d"
# default_tag_value = "none"
index_name = "telegraf-%Y.%m.%d" # required.
## Optional Index Config
## Set to true if Telegraf should use the "create" OpType while indexing
# use_optype_create = false
## Optional TLS Config
# tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
# tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
# tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
# insecure_skip_verify = false
## Template Config
## Set to true if you want telegraf to manage its index template.
## If enabled it will create a recommended index template for telegraf indexes
manage_template = true
## The template name used for telegraf indexes
template_name = "telegraf"
## Set to true if you want telegraf to overwrite an existing template
overwrite_template = false
## If set to true a unique ID hash will be sent as sha256(concat(timestamp,measurement,series-hash)) string
## it will enable data resend and update metric points avoiding duplicated metrics with different id's
force_document_id = false
## Specifies the handling of NaN and Inf values.
## This option can have the following values:
## none -- do not modify field-values (default); will produce an error if NaNs or infs are encountered
## drop -- drop fields containing NaNs or infs
## replace -- replace with the value in "float_replacement_value" (default: 0.0)
## NaNs and inf will be replaced with the given number, -inf with the negative of that number
# float_handling = "none"
# float_replacement_value = 0.0
## Pipeline Config
## To use a ingest pipeline, set this to the name of the pipeline you want to use.
# use_pipeline = "my_pipeline"
## Additionally, you can specify a tag name using the notation {{tag_name}}
## which will be used as part of the pipeline name. If the tag does not exist,
## the default pipeline will be used as the pipeline. If no default pipeline is set,
## no pipeline is used for the metric.
# use_pipeline = "{{es_pipeline}}"
# default_pipeline = "my_pipeline"
#
# Custom HTTP headers
# To pass custom HTTP headers please define it in a given below section
# [outputs.elasticsearch.headers]
# "X-Custom-Header" = "custom-value"
## Template Index Settings
## Overrides the template settings.index section with any provided options.
## Defaults provided here in the config
# template_index_settings = {
# refresh_interval = "10s",
# mapping.total_fields.limit = 5000,
# auto_expand_replicas = "0-1",
# codec = "best_compression"
# }
Input and output integration examples
HAProxy
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Dynamic Load Adjustment: Utilize the HAProxy plugin to monitor traffic patterns in real time, enabling automated adjustments to load balancing algorithms. By continuously gathering metrics on server loads and request rates, system administrators can dynamically allocate resources, ensuring that no single server becomes a bottleneck, thus enhancing overall application performance and availability.
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Historical Performance Analytics: Integrate this plugin with a time series database to collect HAProxy metrics over time, allowing you to analyze historical performance and traffic trends. This can facilitate predictive analysis and planning for capacity, giving businesses insights into peak traffic times and helping to identify potential future resource needs.
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Alerting on Anomalies: Implement alerting workflows that trigger when unusual patterns are detected in HAProxy metrics, such as sudden spikes in error rates or drops in request handling capacity. By leveraging this plugin, operations teams can receive timely notifications, allowing for swift intervention and minimizing the impact of potential downtime on end-users.
Elasticsearch
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Time-based Indexing: Use this plugin to store metrics in Elasticsearch to index each metric based on the time collected. For example, CPU metrics can be stored in a daily index named
telegraf-2023.01.01
, allowing easy time-based queries and retention policies. -
Dynamic Templates Management: Utilize the template management feature to automatically create a custom template tailored to your metrics. This allows you to define how different fields are indexed and analyzed without manually configuring Elasticsearch, ensuring an optimal data structure for querying.
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OpenSearch Compatibility: If you are using AWS OpenSearch, you can configure this plugin to work seamlessly by activating compatibility mode, ensuring your existing Elasticsearch clients remain functional and compatible with newer cluster setups.
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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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