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Apache CouchDB Input Plugin

This plugin gathers metrics from Apache CouchDB instances using the stats endpoint.

Introduced in: Telegraf v0.10.3 Tags: server OS support: all

Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Read CouchDB Stats from one or more servers
[[inputs.couchdb]]
  ## Works with CouchDB stats endpoints out of the box
  ## Multiple Hosts from which to read CouchDB stats:
  hosts = ["http://localhost:8086/_stats"]

  ## Use HTTP Basic Authentication.
  # basic_username = "telegraf"
  # basic_password = "p@ssw0rd"

Metrics

Statistics specific to the internals of CouchDB:

  • couchdb_auth_cache_misses
  • couchdb_database_writes
  • couchdb_open_databases
  • couchdb_auth_cache_hits
  • couchdb_request_time
  • couchdb_database_reads
  • couchdb_open_os_files

Statistics of HTTP requests by method:

  • httpd_request_methods_put
  • httpd_request_methods_get
  • httpd_request_methods_copy
  • httpd_request_methods_delete
  • httpd_request_methods_post
  • httpd_request_methods_head

Statistics of HTTP requests by response code:

  • httpd_status_codes_200
  • httpd_status_codes_201
  • httpd_status_codes_202
  • httpd_status_codes_301
  • httpd_status_codes_304
  • httpd_status_codes_400
  • httpd_status_codes_401
  • httpd_status_codes_403
  • httpd_status_codes_404
  • httpd_status_codes_405
  • httpd_status_codes_409
  • httpd_status_codes_412
  • httpd_status_codes_500

httpd statistics:

  • httpd_clients_requesting_changes
  • httpd_temporary_view_reads
  • httpd_requests
  • httpd_bulk_requests
  • httpd_view_reads

Tags

  • server (url of the couchdb _stats endpoint)

Example Output

Post Couchdb 2.0

couchdb,server=http://couchdb22:5984/_node/_local/_stats couchdb_auth_cache_hits_value=0,httpd_request_methods_delete_value=0,couchdb_auth_cache_misses_value=0,httpd_request_methods_get_value=42,httpd_status_codes_304_value=0,httpd_status_codes_400_value=0,httpd_request_methods_head_value=0,httpd_status_codes_201_value=0,couchdb_database_reads_value=0,httpd_request_methods_copy_value=0,couchdb_request_time_max=0,httpd_status_codes_200_value=42,httpd_status_codes_301_value=0,couchdb_open_os_files_value=2,httpd_request_methods_put_value=0,httpd_request_methods_post_value=0,httpd_status_codes_202_value=0,httpd_status_codes_403_value=0,httpd_status_codes_409_value=0,couchdb_database_writes_value=0,couchdb_request_time_min=0,httpd_status_codes_412_value=0,httpd_status_codes_500_value=0,httpd_status_codes_401_value=0,httpd_status_codes_404_value=0,httpd_status_codes_405_value=0,couchdb_open_databases_value=0 1536707179000000000

Pre Couchdb 2.0

couchdb,server=http://couchdb16:5984/_stats couchdb_request_time_sum=96,httpd_status_codes_200_sum=37,httpd_status_codes_200_min=0,httpd_requests_mean=0.005,httpd_requests_min=0,couchdb_request_time_stddev=3.833,couchdb_request_time_min=1,httpd_request_methods_get_stddev=0.073,httpd_request_methods_get_min=0,httpd_status_codes_200_mean=0.005,httpd_status_codes_200_max=1,httpd_requests_sum=37,couchdb_request_time_current=96,httpd_request_methods_get_sum=37,httpd_request_methods_get_mean=0.005,httpd_request_methods_get_max=1,httpd_status_codes_200_stddev=0.073,couchdb_request_time_mean=2.595,couchdb_request_time_max=25,httpd_request_methods_get_current=37,httpd_status_codes_200_current=37,httpd_requests_current=37,httpd_requests_stddev=0.073,httpd_requests_max=1 1536707179000000000

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