Output towards InfluxDB database

Hi thierryorvoen, 

I’m trying to send data to my influxDB in docker but I can’t find any info or documentation to do it.

were you be able to send metrics to Influx? I was able to send to Graphite but I couldn’t find anything about influxDB.

 

Hi,

Here is a little broker configuration that allows you to write to influxdb.

Several asumptions:

• influxdb server ip is 172.17.0.1
• influxdb user is admin
• we have already a DB instantiated on influxdb named `centreon`.

In your Centreon Web interface, open the broker output configuration. Add a new output of type Influxdb to your central broker. And here is an example of how to fill the form:

For the status part, you can get inspiration from this:

When all these fields are filled, you can push your new configuration and restart broker (to restart broker, use the terminal command `systemctl restart cbd` mandatory because you have a new output), then data should begin to be written into influxdb.

On the broker side, you can open the /var/log/centreon-broker/central-broker-master.log file to verify there are no issue.

On InfluxDB side, you can execute queries to see your data:

> use centreon
> show measurements
> select * from "the name of one of your measurements"

A last important remark, this output needs a cache to be created by broker. To build this cache, broker needs each poller to be restarted.

The previous screenshots are examples, you can customize your output. There are several macros for that:

• $METRICID$ provides the ID of the metric
• $INSTANCE$ provides the poller instance name
• $INSTANCEID$ provides the poller instance ID
• $HOST$
• $HOSTID$
• $SERVICE$
• $SERVICEID$
• $METRIC$ provides the metric name
• $INDEXID$ provides the index ID (a unique ID to represent a host’s service).
• $VALUE$
• $TIME$

Hope it helps.

David.