Learn about the Wavefront Marathon Integration.

Marathon Integration

Marathon is a container orchestration platform for the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) and Apache Mesos. This integration installs and configures Telegraf to send Marathon metrics into Wavefront. Telegraf is a light-weight server process capable of collecting, processing, aggregating, and sending metrics to a Wavefront proxy.

In addition to setting up the metrics flow, this integration also installs a dashboard. Here are the Overview and Task Processing sections of a dashboard displaying Mesos cluster metrics: images/marathon_dashboard.png

To see a list of the metrics for this integration, select the integration from https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs.

Marathon Setup

Step 1. Install the Telegraf Agent

This integration uses the HTTP input plugin for Telegraf to extract metrics from Marathon.

Log in to your Wavefront instance and follow the instructions in the Setup tab to install Telegraf and a Wavefront proxy in your environment. If a proxy is already running in your environment, you can select that proxy and the Telegraf install command connects with that proxy. Sign up for a free trial to check it out!

Step 2. Enable the HTTP input plugin

Create a marathon.conf file in /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d and add the following snippet:

       [[inputs.http]]
       ## One or more URLs from which to read formatted metrics
       urls = [
           "http://<mesos_leader_ip>:8080/metrics",
           "http://<mesos_leader_ip>:8080/v2/tasks",
           "http://<mesos_leader_ip>:8080/v2/queue",
           "http://<mesos_leader_ip>:8080/v2/deployments",
       ]
       data_format = "json"
       name_prefix = "marathon."

Step 3. Restart Telegraf

Run sudo service telegraf restart to restart your Telegraf agent.

integrations list