Fluentd monitoring with Netdata
Fluentd
is an open source data collector for unified logging layer.
This module will monitor one or more Fluentd
servers, depending on your configuration. It gathers metrics from plugin
endpoint provided by in_monitor plugin.
Requirements
fluentd
with enabled monitoring agent
Charts
It produces the following charts:
- Plugin Retry Count in
count
- Plugin Buffer Queue Length in
queue length
- Plugin Buffer Total Size in
buffer
Configuration
Edit the go.d/fluentd.conf
configuration file using edit-config
from the
Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata
.
cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory
sudo ./edit-config go.d/fluentd.conf
Needs only url
. Here is an example for 2 servers:
jobs:
- name: local
url: http://127.0.0.1:24220
- name: local_with_filtering
url: http://127.0.0.1:24220
permit_plugin_id: '!monitor_agent !dummy *'
- name: remote
url: http://203.0.113.10:24220
By default this module collects statistics for all plugins. Filter plugins
syntax: simple patterns.
For all available options please see
module configuration file.
Troubleshooting
To troubleshoot issues with the fluentd
collector, run the go.d.plugin
with the debug option enabled. The output
should give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.
-
Navigate to the plugins.d
directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
. If that's not the case on
your system, open netdata.conf
and look for the plugins
setting under [directories]
.
cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
-
Switch to the netdata
user.
sudo -u netdata -s
-
Run the go.d.plugin
to debug the collector:
./go.d.plugin -d -m fluentd