OpenStack and Mimir Integration
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Input and output integration overview
This plugin collects metrics from essential OpenStack services, facilitating the monitoring and management of cloud infrastructures.
This plugin sends Telegraf metrics directly to Grafana’s Mimir database using HTTP, providing scalable and efficient long-term storage and analysis for Prometheus-compatible metrics.
Integration details
OpenStack
The OpenStack plugin allows users to collect performance metrics from various OpenStack services such as CINDER, GLANCE, HEAT, KEYSTONE, NEUTRON, and NOVA. It supports multiple OpenStack APIs to fetch critical metrics related to these services, enabling comprehensive monitoring and management of cloud resources. As organizations increasingly adopt OpenStack for their cloud infrastructure, this plugin plays a vital role in providing insights into resource usage, availability, and performance across the cloud environment. Configuration options allow for customized polling intervals and filtering unwanted tags to optimize performance and cardinals.
Mimir
Grafana Mimir supports the Prometheus Remote Write protocol, enabling Telegraf collected metrics to be efficiently ingested into Mimir clusters for large-scale, long-term storage. This integration leverages Prometheus’s well-established standards, allowing users to combine Telegraf’s extensive data collection capabilities with Mimir’s advanced features, such as query federation, multi-tenancy, high availability, and cost-efficient storage. Grafana Mimir’s architecture is optimized for handling high volumes of metric data and delivering fast query responses, making it ideal for complex monitoring environments and distributed systems.
Configuration
OpenStack
[[inputs.openstack]]
## The recommended interval to poll is '30m'
## The identity endpoint to authenticate against and get the service catalog from.
authentication_endpoint = "https://my.openstack.cloud:5000"
## The domain to authenticate against when using a V3 identity endpoint.
# domain = "default"
## The project to authenticate as.
# project = "admin"
## User authentication credentials. Must have admin rights.
username = "admin"
password = "password"
## Available services are:
## "agents", "aggregates", "cinder_services", "flavors", "hypervisors",
## "networks", "nova_services", "ports", "projects", "servers",
## "serverdiagnostics", "services", "stacks", "storage_pools", "subnets",
## "volumes"
# enabled_services = ["services", "projects", "hypervisors", "flavors", "networks", "volumes"]
## Query all instances of all tenants for the volumes and server services
## NOTE: Usually this is only permitted for administrators!
# query_all_tenants = true
## output secrets (such as adminPass(for server) and UserID(for volume)).
# output_secrets = false
## Amount of time allowed to complete the HTTP(s) request.
# timeout = "5s"
## HTTP Proxy support
# http_proxy_url = ""
## Optional TLS Config
# tls_ca = /path/to/cafile
# tls_cert = /path/to/certfile
# tls_key = /path/to/keyfile
## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
# insecure_skip_verify = false
## Options for tags received from Openstack
# tag_prefix = "openstack_tag_"
# tag_value = "true"
## Timestamp format for timestamp data received from Openstack.
## If false format is unix nanoseconds.
# human_readable_timestamps = false
## Measure Openstack call duration
# measure_openstack_requests = false
Mimir
[[outputs.http]]
url = "http://data-load-balancer-backend-1:9009/api/v1/push"
data_format = "prometheusremotewrite"
username = "*****"
password = "******"
[outputs.http.headers]
Content-Type = "application/x-protobuf"
Content-Encoding = "snappy"
X-Scope-OrgID = "****"
Input and output integration examples
OpenStack
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Cross-Cloud Management: Leverage the OpenStack plugin to monitor and manage multiple OpenStack clouds from a single Telegraf instance. By aggregating metrics across different clouds, organizations can gain insights into resource utilization and optimize their cloud architecture for cost and performance.
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Automated Scaling Based on Metrics: Integrate the metrics gathered from OpenStack into an automated scaling solution. For example, if the plugin detects that a specific service’s performance is degraded, it can trigger auto-scaling rules to launch additional instances, ensuring that system performance remains optimal under varying workloads.
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Performance Monitoring Dashboard: Use data collected by the OpenStack Telegraf plugin to power real-time monitoring dashboards. This setup provides visualizations of key metrics from OpenStack services, enabling stakeholders to quickly identify trends, pinpoint issues, and make data-driven decisions in managing their cloud infrastructure.
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Reporting and Analysis of Service Availability: By utilizing the metrics collected from various OpenStack services, teams can generate detailed reports on service availability and performance over time. This information can help identify recurring issues, improve service delivery, and make informed decisions regarding changes in infrastructure or service configuration.
Mimir
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Enterprise-Scale Kubernetes Monitoring: Integrate Telegraf with Grafana Mimir to stream metrics from Kubernetes clusters at enterprise scale. This enables comprehensive visibility, improved resource allocation, and proactive troubleshooting across hundreds of clusters, leveraging Mimir’s horizontal scalability and high availability.
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Multi-tenant SaaS Application Observability: Use this plugin to centralize metrics from diverse SaaS tenants into Grafana Mimir, enabling tenant isolation and accurate billing based on resource usage. This approach provides reliable observability, efficient cost management, and secure multi-tenancy support.
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Global Edge Network Performance Tracking: Stream latency and availability metrics from globally distributed edge servers into Grafana Mimir. Organizations can quickly identify performance degradation or outages, leveraging Mimir’s fast querying capabilities to ensure optimal service reliability and user experience.
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Real-Time Analytics for High-Volume Microservices: Implement Telegraf metrics collection in high-volume microservices architectures, feeding data into Grafana Mimir for real-time analytics and anomaly detection. Mimir’s powerful querying enables teams to detect anomalies and quickly respond, maintaining high service availability and performance.
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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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