CoreOS Integration

Learn about the Wavefront CoreOS Integration.

The CoreOS integration installs and configures Telegraf to send CoreOS and Docker Container performance metrics to Wavefront. Telegraf is a light-weight server process that can collect, process, aggregate and send metrics to a Wavefront proxy.

In addition to setting up the metrics flow, this integration also installs a dashboard. Here’s the CPU section of a dashboard displaying CoreOS metrics.

images/coreos-sample-dashboard.png

CoreOS Setup

This integration uses the Telegraf Docker container and Telegraf Docker input plugin to collect metrics from CoreOS.

Step 1. Install the Wavefront Proxy

If you do not have a Wavefront proxy installed on your network, install a proxy as a Docker container in CoreOS.

Step 2. Install and Configure the Telegraf Agent

Run docker pull telegraf to pull a Telegraf Docker container.
Run docker run --rm telegraf telegraf config > telegraf.conf to create a configuration file on your host.
In the telegraf.conf file disable the InfluxDB output plugin by commenting all the lines under outputs.influxdb.

Configure the outputs section to communicate with your Wavefront proxy:

[[outputs.wavefront]]
   host = "WAVEFRONT_PROXY_HOSTNAME"
   port = 2878

In the agent configuration section configure hostname:
```
[[agent]]
   hostname = "<hostname>"
```

Add the snippet name_prefix = "coreos." to the following inputs:

[[inputs.cpu]]
[[inputs.disk]]
[[inputs.diskio]]
[[inputs.kernel]]
[[inputs.mem]]
[[inputs.processes]]
[[inputs.swap]]
[[inputs.system]]
[[inputs.net]]

Enable the Docker input plugin by adding the following snippet:

[[inputs.docker]]

  ## Docker Endpoint
  ##   To use TCP, set endpoint = "tcp://[ip]:[port]"
  ##   To use environment variables (ie, docker-machine), set endpoint = "ENV"
  endpoint = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"

  ## Set to true to collect Swarm metrics(desired_replicas, running_replicas)
  ## Note: configure this in one of the manager nodes in a Swarm cluster.
  ## configuring in multiple Swarm managers results in duplication of metrics.
  gather_services = false

  ## Only collect metrics for these containers. Values will be appended to
  ## container_name_include.
  ## Deprecated (1.4.0), use container_name_include
  container_names = []

  ## Containers to include and exclude. Collect all if empty. Globs accepted.
  container_name_include = []
  container_name_exclude = []

  ## Timeout for docker list, info, and stats commands
  timeout = "5s"

  ## Whether to report for each container per-device blkio (8:0, 8:1...) and
  ## network (eth0, eth1, ...) stats or not
  perdevice = true

  ## Whether to report for each container total blkio and network stats or not
  total = false

  ## docker labels to include and exclude as tags.  Globs accepted.
  ## Note that an empty array for both will include all labels as tags
  docker_label_include = []
  docker_label_exclude = []

  ## Which environment variables should we use as a tag
  tag_env = ["JAVA_HOME", "HEAP_SIZE"]

  ## Optional SSL Config
  # ssl_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # ssl_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # ssl_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  ## Use SSL but skip chain & host verification
  # insecure_skip_verify = false
  name_prefix = "coreos."

Step 3. Start the Telegraf Docker container

Run the following command to start the Docker container:

docker run -d=true --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro -v /proc/:/host/proc/:ro -v /cgroup/:/host/sys/fs/cgroup:ro -v $PWD/telegraf.conf:/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf:ro telegraf