Telegraf Notes (in relation to NetApp Cloud Insights)

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It is easy to add a Telegraf agent to a guest machine (Windows or Linux) in NetApp Cloud Insights:

Admin > Data Collectors > Add Data Collector

For example:


There are various plugins for Telegraf.

  • EXEC can collect script outputs!
  • Other useful plugins: HTTP and SNMP

You could have a server running Telegraf and use it to run scripts and collect data from other devices (like additional metrics from storage devices.) You can create a new data lake category as required. The data is injested into the data lake.

Once installed, to check telegraf is running (on Linux)>

systemctl status telegraf


Some Configuration Notes/Tips

## Output to file for easier analysis of file content.
[[outputs.file]]
files = ["$filenamelocation"]
use_batch_format = true
rotation_max_size = "1MB"
data_format = "json"
namepass = ["sqlserver"]
tagexclude = ["CloudInsights"]
[outputs.file.tagpass]
  CloudInsights = ["true"]
  cloudinsights_sqlserver_conf_version = ["0.1"]

## Output to Cloud Insights
[[outputs.http]]
  url = "https://$tenantname.$tenantsubdomain.cloudinsights.netapp.com/rest/v1/lake/ingest/influxdb"
  insecure_skip_verify = true
  data_format = "json"
  namepass = ["sqlserver"]
  tagexclude = ["CloudInsights"]
  [outputs.http.headers]
    Content-Type = "application/json"
    X-CloudInsights-ApiKey = "$cloudinsightsapikey"
    X-CloudInsights-Lake-Category = "microsoft_sql"
  [outputs.http.tagpass]
    CloudInsights = ["true"]
    cloudinsights_sqlserver_conf_version = ["0.1"]

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