hostid

Documentation

Overview

Package hostid contains methods that can be called upon agent start up to determine host-specific values that uniquely identify a particular host, particularly ids that can be used to correlate metrics coming from this host to other metrics generated elsewhere, such as AWS CloudWatch metrics.

Index

• func AWSUniqueID() string
• func AzureUniqueID() string
• func Dimensions(sendMachineID bool, hostname string, useFullyQualifiedHost *bool) map[string]string
• func GoogleComputeID() string
• func MachineID() string

Functions

func AWSUniqueID

func AWSUniqueID() string

AWSUniqueID constructs the unique EC2 instance of the underlying host. If not running on EC2, returns the empty string.

func AzureUniqueID

func AzureUniqueID() string

AzureUniqueID constructs the unique ID of the underlying Azure VM. If not running on Azure VM, returns the empty string.

func Dimensions

func Dimensions(sendMachineID bool, hostname string, useFullyQualifiedHost *bool) map[string]string

Dimensions returns a map of host-specific dimensions that are derived from the environment.

func GoogleComputeID

func GoogleComputeID() string

GoogleComputeID generates a unique id for the compute instance that the agent is running on. It returns a blank string if we are not running on GCP or there was an error getting the metadata.

func MachineID

func MachineID() string

MachineID returns the Linux machine-id, which is present on most newer Linux distros. It is more useful than hostname as a unique identifier. See http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/machine-id.5.html