VMware vSphere and MongoDB Integration
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Input and output integration overview
The VMware vSphere Telegraf plugin provides a means to collect metrics from VMware vCenter servers, allowing for comprehensive monitoring and management of virtual resources in a vSphere environment.
The MongoDB Telegraf Plugin enables users to send metrics to a MongoDB database, automatically managing time series collections.
Integration details
VMware vSphere
This plugin connects to VMware vSphere servers to gather a variety of metrics from virtual environments, enabling efficient monitoring and management of virtual resources. It interfaces with the vSphere API to collect statistics regarding clusters, hosts, resource pools, VMs, datastores, and vSAN entities, presenting them in a format suitable for analysis and visualization. The plugin is particularly valuable for administrators who manage VMware-based infrastructures, as it helps to track system performance, resource usage, and operational issues in real-time. By aggregating data from multiple sources, the plugin empowers users with insights that facilitate informed decision-making regarding resource allocation, troubleshooting, and ensuring optimal system performance. Additionally, the support for secret-store integration allows secure handling of sensitive credentials, promoting best practices in security and compliance assessments.
MongoDB
This plugin sends metrics to MongoDB and seamlessly integrates with its time series functionality, allowing for automatic creation of collections as time series when they don’t already exist. It requires MongoDB version 5.0 or higher to utilize the time series collections feature, which is vital for efficiently storing and querying time-based data. This plugin enhances the monitoring capabilities by ensuring that all relevant metrics are stored and organized correctly within MongoDB, providing users the ability to leverage MongoDB’s powerful querying and aggregation features for time series analysis.
Configuration
VMware vSphere
[[inputs.vsphere]]
vcenters = [ "https://vcenter.local/sdk" ]
username = "[email protected]"
password = "secret"
vm_metric_include = [
"cpu.demand.average",
"cpu.idle.summation",
"cpu.latency.average",
"cpu.readiness.average",
"cpu.ready.summation",
"cpu.run.summation",
"cpu.usagemhz.average",
"cpu.used.summation",
"cpu.wait.summation",
"mem.active.average",
"mem.granted.average",
"mem.latency.average",
"mem.swapin.average",
"mem.swapinRate.average",
"mem.swapout.average",
"mem.swapoutRate.average",
"mem.usage.average",
"mem.vmmemctl.average",
"net.bytesRx.average",
"net.bytesTx.average",
"net.droppedRx.summation",
"net.droppedTx.summation",
"net.usage.average",
"power.power.average",
"virtualDisk.numberReadAveraged.average",
"virtualDisk.numberWriteAveraged.average",
"virtualDisk.read.average",
"virtualDisk.readOIO.latest",
"virtualDisk.throughput.usage.average",
"virtualDisk.totalReadLatency.average",
"virtualDisk.totalWriteLatency.average",
"virtualDisk.write.average",
"virtualDisk.writeOIO.latest",
"sys.uptime.latest",
]
host_metric_include = [
"cpu.coreUtilization.average",
"cpu.costop.summation",
"cpu.demand.average",
"cpu.idle.summation",
"cpu.latency.average",
"cpu.readiness.average",
"cpu.ready.summation",
"cpu.swapwait.summation",
"cpu.usage.average",
"cpu.usagemhz.average",
"cpu.used.summation",
"cpu.utilization.average",
"cpu.wait.summation",
"disk.deviceReadLatency.average",
"disk.deviceWriteLatency.average",
"disk.kernelReadLatency.average",
"disk.kernelWriteLatency.average",
"disk.numberReadAveraged.average",
"disk.numberWriteAveraged.average",
"disk.read.average",
"disk.totalReadLatency.average",
"disk.totalWriteLatency.average",
"disk.write.average",
"mem.active.average",
"mem.latency.average",
"mem.state.latest",
"mem.swapin.average",
"mem.swapinRate.average",
"mem.swapout.average",
"mem.swapoutRate.average",
"mem.totalCapacity.average",
"mem.usage.average",
"mem.vmmemctl.average",
"net.bytesRx.average",
"net.bytesTx.average",
"net.droppedRx.summation",
"net.droppedTx.summation",
"net.errorsRx.summation",
"net.errorsTx.summation",
"net.usage.average",
"power.power.average",
"storageAdapter.numberReadAveraged.average",
"storageAdapter.numberWriteAveraged.average",
"storageAdapter.read.average",
"storageAdapter.write.average",
"sys.uptime.latest",
]
datacenter_metric_include = [] ## if omitted or empty, all metrics are collected
datacenter_metric_exclude = [ "*" ] ## Datacenters are not collected by default.
vsan_metric_include = [] ## if omitted or empty, all metrics are collected
vsan_metric_exclude = [ "*" ] ## vSAN are not collected by default.
separator = "_"
max_query_objects = 256
max_query_metrics = 256
collect_concurrency = 1
discover_concurrency = 1
object_discovery_interval = "300s"
timeout = "60s"
use_int_samples = true
custom_attribute_include = []
custom_attribute_exclude = ["*"]
metric_lookback = 3
ssl_ca = "/path/to/cafile"
ssl_cert = "/path/to/certfile"
ssl_key = "/path/to/keyfile"
insecure_skip_verify = false
historical_interval = "5m"
disconnected_servers_behavior = "error"
use_system_proxy = true
http_proxy_url = ""
MongoDB
[[outputs.mongodb]]
# connection string examples for mongodb
dsn = "mongodb://localhost:27017"
# dsn = "mongodb://mongod1:27017,mongod2:27017,mongod3:27017/admin&replicaSet=myReplSet&w=1"
# overrides serverSelectionTimeoutMS in dsn if set
# timeout = "30s"
# default authentication, optional
# authentication = "NONE"
# for SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication
# authentication = "SCRAM"
# username = "root"
# password = "***"
# for x509 certificate authentication
# authentication = "X509"
# tls_ca = "ca.pem"
# tls_key = "client.pem"
# # tls_key_pwd = "changeme" # required for encrypted tls_key
# insecure_skip_verify = false
# database to store measurements and time series collections
# database = "telegraf"
# granularity can be seconds, minutes, or hours.
# configuring this value will be based on your input collection frequency.
# see https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/timeseries-collections/#create-a-time-series-collection
# granularity = "seconds"
# optionally set a TTL to automatically expire documents from the measurement collections.
# ttl = "360h"
Input and output integration examples
VMware vSphere
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Dynamic Resource Allocation: Utilize this plugin to monitor resource usage across a fleet of VMs and automatically adjust resource allocations based on performance metrics. This scenario could involve triggering scaling actions in real time based on CPU and memory usage metrics collected from the vSphere API, ensuring optimal performance and cost-efficiency.
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Capacity Planning and Forecasting: Leverage the historical metrics gathered from vSphere to conduct capacity planning. Analyzing the trends of CPU, memory, and storage usage over time helps administrators anticipate when additional resources will be needed, avoiding outages and ensuring that the virtual infrastructure can handle growth.
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Automated Alerting and Incident Response: Integrate this plugin with alerting tools to set up automated notifications based on the metrics gathered. For example, if the CPU usage on a host exceeds a specified threshold, it could trigger alerts and automatically initiate predefined remediation steps, such as migrating VMs to less utilized hosts.
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Performance Benchmarking Across Clusters: Use the metrics collected to compare the performance of clusters in different vCenters. This benchmarking provides insights into which cluster configurations yield the best resource efficiency and can guide future infrastructure enhancements.
MongoDB
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Dynamic Logging to MongoDB for IoT Devices: Utilize this plugin to collect and store metrics from a fleet of IoT devices in real-time. By sending device logs directly to MongoDB, you can create a centralized database that allows for easy access and querying of health metrics and performance data, enabling proactive maintenance and troubleshooting based on historical trends.
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Time Series Analysis of Web Traffic: Use the MongoDB Telegraf Plugin to gather and analyze web traffic metrics over time. This application can help you understand peak usage times, user interactions, and behavior patterns, which can guide marketing strategies and infrastructure scaling decisions for improved user experience.
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Automated Monitoring and Alerting System: Integrate the MongoDB plugin into an automated monitoring system that tracks application performance metrics. With time series collections, you can set up alerts based on specific thresholds, allowing your team to respond to potential issues before they affect users. This proactive management can enhance service reliability and overall performance.
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Data Retention and TTL Management in Metrics Storage: Leverage the TTL feature for documents within MongoDB collections to auto-expire outdated metrics. This is particularly useful for environments where only recent performance data is relevant, preventing your MongoDB database from becoming cluttered with old metrics and ensuring efficient data management.
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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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