hostmetricsreceiver

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Host Metrics Receiver

Status
Stability	beta
Supported pipeline types	metrics
Distributions	core, contrib

The Host Metrics receiver generates metrics about the host system scraped from various sources. This is intended to be used when the collector is deployed as an agent.

Getting Started

The collection interval and the categories of metrics to be scraped can be configured:

hostmetrics:
  collection_interval: <duration> # default = 1m
  scrapers:
    <scraper1>:
    <scraper2>:
    ...

The available scrapers are:

Scraper	Supported OSs	Description
cpu	All except Mac[1]	CPU utilization metrics
disk	All except Mac[1]	Disk I/O metrics
load	All	CPU load metrics
filesystem	All	File System utilization metrics
memory	All	Memory utilization metrics
network	All	Network interface I/O metrics & TCP connection metrics
paging	All	Paging/Swap space utilization and I/O metrics
processes	Linux	Process count metrics
process	Linux & Windows	Per process CPU, Memory, and Disk I/O metrics

Notes

^[1] Not supported on Mac when compiled without cgo which is the default.

Several scrapers support additional configuration:

Disk

disk:
  <include|exclude>:
    devices: [ <device name>, ... ]
    match_type: <strict|regexp>

File System

filesystem:
  <include_devices|exclude_devices>:
    devices: [ <device name>, ... ]
    match_type: <strict|regexp>
  <include_fs_types|exclude_fs_types>:
    fs_types: [ <filesystem type>, ... ]
    match_type: <strict|regexp>
  <include_mount_points|exclude_mount_points>:
    mount_points: [ <mount point>, ... ]
    match_type: <strict|regexp>

Load

cpu_average specifies whether to divide the average load by the reported number of logical CPUs (default: false).

load:
  cpu_average: <false|true>

Network

network:
  <include|exclude>:
    interfaces: [ <interface name>, ... ]
    match_type: <strict|regexp>

Process

process:
  <include|exclude>:
    names: [ <process name>, ... ]
    match_type: <strict|regexp>
  mute_process_name_error: <true|false>
  scrape_process_delay: <time>

Advanced Configuration

Filtering

If you are only interested in a subset of metrics from a particular source, it is recommended you use this receiver with the Filter Processor.

Different Frequencies

If you would like to scrape some metrics at a different frequency than others, you can configure multiple hostmetrics receivers with different collection_interval values. For example:

receivers:
  hostmetrics:
    collection_interval: 30s
    scrapers:
      cpu:
      memory:

  hostmetrics/disk:
    collection_interval: 1m
    scrapers:
      disk:
      filesystem:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [hostmetrics, hostmetrics/disk]

Feature gate configurations

Transition from metrics with "direction" attribute

The proposal to change metrics from being reported with a direction attribute has been reverted in the specification. As a result, the following feature gates will be removed in v0.62.0:

• receiver.hostmetricsreceiver.emitMetricsWithoutDirectionAttribute
• receiver.hostmetricsreceiver.emitMetricsWithDirectionAttribute

For additional information, see https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/2726.

More information:

• https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/11815
• https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2617

Documentation

Overview

Package hostmetricsreceiver reads metrics like CPU usage, disk usage, and network usage from the host.

Index

• func NewFactory() component.ReceiverFactory
• type Config
  • func (cfg *Config) Unmarshal(componentParser *confmap.Conf) error
  • func (cfg *Config) Validate() error

Functions

func NewFactory

func NewFactory() component.ReceiverFactory

NewFactory creates a new factory for host metrics receiver.

Types

type Config

type Config struct {
	scraperhelper.ScraperControllerSettings `mapstructure:",squash"`
	Scrapers                                map[string]internal.Config `mapstructure:"-"`
}

Config defines configuration for HostMetrics receiver.

func (*Config) Unmarshal

func (cfg *Config) Unmarshal(componentParser *confmap.Conf) error

Unmarshal a config.Parser into the config struct.

func (*Config) Validate

func (cfg *Config) Validate() error

Validate checks the receiver configuration is valid