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Telegraf is an open source agent written in Go for collecting metrics and data on the system it's running on or from other services. Telegraf writes data it collects to InfluxDB in the correct format.
The default configuration requires a running InfluxDB instance as an output plugin. Ensure that InfluxDB is running on port 8086 before starting the Telegraf container.
Minimal example to start an InfluxDB container:
$ docker run -d --name influxdb -p 8083:8083 -p 8086:8086 influxdb
Starting Telegraf using the default config, which connects to InfluxDB at http://localhost:8086/:
$ docker run --net=container:influxdb telegraf
First, generate a sample configuration and save it as telegraf.conf on the host:
$ docker run --rm telegraf -sample-config > telegraf.conf
Once you've customized telegraf.conf, you can run the Telegraf container with it mounted in the expected location:
$ docker run -v /path/to/telegraf.conf:/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf:ro telegraf
Read more about the Telegraf configuration here.
These examples assume you are using a custom configuration file that takes advantage of Docker's built-in service discovery capability. In order to do so, we'll first create a new network:
$ docker network create telegraf_nw
Next, we'll start our InfluxDB container named influxdb:
$ docker run -d --name influxdb \
--net=telegraf_nw \
-p 8083:8083 -p 8086:8086 \
influxdb
The telegraf.conf configuration can now resolve the influxdb container by name:
[[outputs.influxdb]]
urls = ["http://influxdb:8086"]
Finally, we start our Telegraf container and verify functionality:
$ docker run -d --name telegraf \
--net=telegraf_nw \
-v /path/to/telegraf.conf:/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf:ro \
telegraf
...
$ docker logs -f telegraf
Start an instance of aerospike:
$ docker run -d --name aerospike \
--net=telegraf_nw \
-p 3000-3003:3000-3003 \
aerospike
Edit your Telegraf config file and set the correct connection parameter for Aerospike:
[[inputs.aerospike]]
servers = ["aerospike:3000"]
Restart your telegraf container to pick up the changes:
$ docker restart telegraf
Create an nginx_status.conf configuration file to expose metric data:
server {
listen 8090;
location /nginx_status {
stub_status on;
access_log on;
}
}
Start an Nginx container utilizing it:
$ docker run -d --name=nginx \
--net=telegraf_nw \
-p 8090:8090 -p 8080:80 \
-v /path/to/nginx_status.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx_status.conf:ro \
nginx
Verify the status page: http://localhost:8090/nginx_status.
Configure the nginx input plugin in your Telegraf configuration file:
[[inputs.nginx]]
urls = ["http://nginx:8090/nginx_status"]
Restart your telegraf container to pick up the changes:
$ docker restart telegraf
Telegraf has a StatsD plugin, allowing Telegraf to run as a StatsD server that metrics can be sent to. In order for this to work, you must first configure the StatsD plugin in your config file.
Run Telegraf with the UDP port 8125 exposed:
$ docker run -d --name telegraf \
--net=telegraf_nw \
-p 8125:8125/udp \
-v /path/to/telegraf.conf:/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf:ro \
telegraf
Send Mock StatsD data:
$ for i in {1..50}; do echo $i;echo "foo:1|c" | nc -u -w0 127.0.0.1 8125; done
Check that the measurement foo is added in the DB.
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This image is officially supported on Docker version 1.11.1.
Support for older versions (down to 1.6) is provided on a best-effort basis.
Please see the Docker installation documentation for details on how to upgrade your Docker daemon.
Documentation for this image is stored in the telegraf/ directory of the docker-library/docs GitHub repo. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the repository's README.md file before attempting a pull request.
If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact us through a GitHub issue. If the issue is related to a CVE, please check for a cve-tracker issue on the official-images repository first.
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You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as we can.
Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans through a GitHub issue, especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give you feedback on your design, and help you find out if someone else is working on the same thing.