LDAP and VictoriaMetrics Integration
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Input and output integration overview
The LDAP plugin collects monitoring metrics from LDAP servers, including OpenLDAP and 389 Directory Server. This plugin is essential for tracking the performance and health of LDAP services, enabling administrators to gain insights into their directory operations.
This plugin enables Telegraf to efficiently write metrics directly into VictoriaMetrics using the InfluxDB line protocol, leveraging the performance and scalability features of VictoriaMetrics for large-scale time-series data.
Integration details
LDAP
This plugin gathers metrics from LDAP servers’ monitoring backend, specifically from the cn=Monitor
entries. It supports two prominent LDAP implementations: OpenLDAP and 389 Directory Server (389ds). With a focus on collecting various operational metrics, the LDAP plugin enables administrators to monitor performance, connection status, and server health in real-time, which is vital for maintaining robust directory services. By allowing customizable connection parameters and security configurations, such as TLS support, the plugin ensures compliance with best practices for security and performance. Metrics gathered can be instrumental in identifying trends, optimizing server configurations, and enforcing service-level agreements with stakeholders.
VictoriaMetrics
VictoriaMetrics supports direct ingestion of metrics in the InfluxDB line protocol, making this plugin ideal for efficient real-time metric storage and retrieval. The integration combines Telegraf’s extensive metric collection capabilities with VictoriaMetrics’ optimized storage and querying features, including compression, fast ingestion rates, and efficient disk utilization. Ideal for cloud-native and large-scale monitoring scenarios, this plugin offers simplicity, robust performance, and high reliability, enabling advanced operational insights and long-term storage solutions for large volumes of metrics.
Configuration
LDAP
[[inputs.ldap]]
## Server to monitor
## The scheme determines the mode to use for connection with
## ldap://... -- unencrypted (non-TLS) connection
## ldaps://... -- TLS connection
## starttls://... -- StartTLS connection
## If no port is given, the default ports, 389 for ldap and starttls and
## 636 for ldaps, are used.
server = "ldap://localhost"
## Server dialect, can be "openldap" or "389ds"
# dialect = "openldap"
# DN and password to bind with
## If bind_dn is empty an anonymous bind is performed.
bind_dn = ""
bind_password = ""
## Reverse the field names constructed from the monitoring DN
# reverse_field_names = false
## Optional TLS Config
## Set to true/false to enforce TLS being enabled/disabled. If not set,
## enable TLS only if any of the other options are specified.
# tls_enable =
## Trusted root certificates for server
# tls_ca = "/path/to/cafile"
## Used for TLS client certificate authentication
# tls_cert = "/path/to/certfile"
## Used for TLS client certificate authentication
# tls_key = "/path/to/keyfile"
## Password for the key file if it is encrypted
# tls_key_pwd = ""
## Send the specified TLS server name via SNI
# tls_server_name = "kubernetes.example.com"
## Minimal TLS version to accept by the client
# tls_min_version = "TLS12"
## List of ciphers to accept, by default all secure ciphers will be accepted
## See https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/tls#pkg-constants for supported values.
## Use "all", "secure" and "insecure" to add all support ciphers, secure
## suites or insecure suites respectively.
# tls_cipher_suites = ["secure"]
## Renegotiation method, "never", "once" or "freely"
# tls_renegotiation_method = "never"
## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
# insecure_skip_verify = false
VictoriaMetrics
[[outputs.influxdb]]
## URL of the VictoriaMetrics write endpoint
urls = ["http://localhost:8428"]
## VictoriaMetrics accepts InfluxDB line protocol directly
database = "db_name"
## Optional authentication
# username = "username"
# password = "password"
# skip_database_creation = true
# exclude_retention_policy_tag = true
# content_encoding = "gzip"
## Timeout for HTTP requests
timeout = "5s"
## Optional TLS configuration
# tls_ca = "/path/to/ca.pem"
# tls_cert = "/path/to/cert.pem"
# tls_key = "/path/to/key.pem"
# insecure_skip_verify = false
Input and output integration examples
LDAP
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Monitoring Directory Performance: Use the LDAP Telegraf plugin to continuously track and analyze the number of operations completed, initiated connections, and server response times. By visualizing this data over time, administrators can identify performance bottlenecks in directory services, enabling proactive optimization.
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Alerting on Security Events: Integrate the plugin with an alerting system to notify administrators when certain metrics, such as
bind_security_errors
orunauth_binds
, exceed predefined thresholds. This setup can enhance security monitoring by providing real-time insights into potential unauthorized access attempts. -
Capacity Planning: Leverage the metrics collected by the LDAP plugin to perform capacity planning. Analyze connection trends, maximum threads in use, and operational statistics to forecast future resource needs, ensuring the LDAP server can handle expected peak loads without degrading performance.
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Compliance and Auditing: Use the operational metrics obtained via this plugin to assist in compliance audits. By regularly checking metrics like
anonymous_binds
andsecurity_errors
, organizations can ensure that their directory services adhere to security policies and regulatory requirements.
VictoriaMetrics
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Cloud-Native Application Monitoring: Stream metrics from microservices deployed on Kubernetes directly into VictoriaMetrics. By centralizing metrics, organizations can perform real-time monitoring, rapid anomaly detection, and seamless scalability across dynamically evolving cloud environments.
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Scalable IoT Data Management: Use the plugin to ingest sensor data from IoT deployments into VictoriaMetrics. This approach facilitates real-time analytics, predictive maintenance, and efficient management of massive volumes of sensor data with minimal storage overhead.
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Financial Systems Performance Tracking: Leverage VictoriaMetrics via this plugin to store and analyze metrics from financial systems, capturing latency, transaction volume, and error rates. Organizations can rapidly identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring high availability and regulatory compliance.
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Cross-Environment Performance Dashboards: Integrate metrics from diverse infrastructure components—such as cloud instances, containers, and physical servers into VictoriaMetrics. Using visualization tools, teams can build comprehensive dashboards for end-to-end performance visibility, proactive troubleshooting, and infrastructure optimization.
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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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