telegraf/plugins/outputs/stackdriver

Stackdriver Google Cloud Monitoring Output Plugin

This plugin writes to the Google Cloud Monitoring API (formerly Stackdriver) and requires authentication with Google Cloud using either a service account or user credentials

This plugin accesses APIs which are chargeable; you might incur costs.

Requires project to specify where Stackdriver metrics will be delivered to.

Metrics are grouped by the namespace variable and metric key - eg: custom.googleapis.com/telegraf/system/load5

Resource type is configured by the resource_type variable (default global).

Additional resource labels can be configured by resource_labels. By default the required project_id label is always set to the project variable.

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Configuration for Google Cloud Stackdriver to send metrics to
[[outputs.stackdriver]]
  ## GCP Project
  project = "erudite-bloom-151019"

  ## The namespace for the metric descriptor
  namespace = "telegraf"

  ## Metric Type Prefix
  ## The DNS name used with the metric type as a prefix.
  # metric_type_prefix = "custom.googleapis.com"

  ## Custom resource type
  # resource_type = "generic_node"

  ## Additional resource labels
  # [outputs.stackdriver.resource_labels]
  #   node_id = "$HOSTNAME"
  #   namespace = "myapp"
  #   location = "eu-north0"

Restrictions

Stackdriver does not support string values in custom metrics, any string fields will not be written.

The Stackdriver API does not allow writing points which are out of order, older than 24 hours, or more with resolution greater than than one per point minute. Since Telegraf writes the newest points first and moves backwards through the metric buffer, it may not be possible to write historical data after an interruption.

Points collected with greater than 1 minute precision may need to be aggregated before then can be written. Consider using the basicstats aggregator to do this.

Histogram / distribution and delta metrics are not yet supported. These will be dropped silently unless debugging is on.

Note that the plugin keeps an in-memory cache of the start times and last observed values of all COUNTER metrics in order to comply with the requirements of the stackdriver API. This cache is not GCed: if you remove a large number of counters from the input side, you may wish to restart telegraf to clear it.