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Telegraf

  • Telegraf v1.19.0+

OpenTelemetry Input Plugin

This service plugin receives traces, metrics, logs and profiles from OpenTelemetry clients and compatible agents via gRPC.

Telegraf v1.32 through v1.35 support the Profiles signal using the v1 experimental API. Telegraf v1.36+ supports the Profiles signal using the v1 development API.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.19.0 Tags: logging, messaging OS support: all

Service Input

This plugin is a service input. Normal plugins gather metrics determined by the interval setting. Service plugins start a service to listen and wait for metrics or events to occur. Service plugins have two key differences from normal plugins:

  1. The global or plugin specific interval setting may not apply
  2. The CLI options of --test, --test-wait, and --once may not produce output for this plugin

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

# Receive OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs over gRPC
[[inputs.opentelemetry]]
  ## Override the default (0.0.0.0:4317) destination OpenTelemetry gRPC service
  ## address:port
  # service_address = "0.0.0.0:4317"

  ## Override the default (5s) new connection timeout
  # timeout = "5s"

  ## gRPC Maximum Message Size
  # max_msg_size = "4MB"

  ## Override the default span attributes to be used as line protocol tags.
  ## These are always included as tags:
  ## - trace ID
  ## - span ID
  ## Common attributes can be found here:
  ## - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/semconv
  # span_dimensions = ["service.name", "span.name"]

  ## Override the default log record attributes to be used as line protocol tags.
  ## These are always included as tags, if available:
  ## - trace ID
  ## - span ID
  ## Common attributes can be found here:
  ## - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/semconv
  ## When using InfluxDB for both logs and traces, be certain that log_record_dimensions
  ## matches the span_dimensions value.
  # log_record_dimensions = ["service.name"]

  ## Override the default profile attributes to be used as line protocol tags.
  ## These are always included as tags, if available:
  ## - profile_id
  ## - address
  ## - sample
  ## - sample_name
  ## - sample_unit
  ## - sample_type
  ## - sample_type_unit
  ## Common attributes can be found here:
  ## - https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/semconv
  # profile_dimensions = []

  ## Override the default (prometheus-v1) metrics schema.
  ## Supports: "prometheus-v1", "prometheus-v2"
  ## For more information about the alternatives, read the Prometheus input
  ## plugin notes.
  # metrics_schema = "prometheus-v1"

  ## Optional TLS Config.
  ## For advanced options: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/v1.18.3/docs/TLS.md
  ##
  ## Set one or more allowed client CA certificate file names to
  ## enable mutually authenticated TLS connections.
  # tls_allowed_cacerts = ["/etc/telegraf/clientca.pem"]
  ## Add service certificate and key.
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"

Schema

The OpenTelemetry->InfluxDB conversion schema and implementation are hosted at https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-observability .

Spans are stored in measurement spans. Logs are stored in measurement logs.

For metrics, two output schemata exist. Metrics received with metrics_schema=prometheus-v1 are assigned measurement from the OTel field Metric.name. Metrics received with metrics_schema=prometheus-v2 are stored in measurement prometheus.

Also see the OpenTelemetry output plugin for Telegraf.

Example Output

Tracing Spans

spans end_time_unix_nano="2021-02-19 20:50:25.6893952 +0000 UTC",instrumentation_library_name="tracegen",kind="SPAN_KIND_INTERNAL",name="okey-dokey",net.peer.ip="1.2.3.4",parent_span_id="d5270e78d85f570f",peer.service="tracegen-client",service.name="tracegen",span.kind="server",span_id="4c28227be6a010e1",status_code="STATUS_CODE_OK",trace_id="7d4854815225332c9834e6dbf85b9380" 1613767825689169000
spans end_time_unix_nano="2021-02-19 20:50:25.6893952 +0000 UTC",instrumentation_library_name="tracegen",kind="SPAN_KIND_INTERNAL",name="lets-go",net.peer.ip="1.2.3.4",peer.service="tracegen-server",service.name="tracegen",span.kind="client",span_id="d5270e78d85f570f",status_code="STATUS_CODE_OK",trace_id="7d4854815225332c9834e6dbf85b9380" 1613767825689135000
spans end_time_unix_nano="2021-02-19 20:50:25.6895667 +0000 UTC",instrumentation_library_name="tracegen",kind="SPAN_KIND_INTERNAL",name="okey-dokey",net.peer.ip="1.2.3.4",parent_span_id="b57e98af78c3399b",peer.service="tracegen-client",service.name="tracegen",span.kind="server",span_id="a0643a156d7f9f7f",status_code="STATUS_CODE_OK",trace_id="fd6b8bb5965e726c94978c644962cdc8" 1613767825689388000
spans end_time_unix_nano="2021-02-19 20:50:25.6895667 +0000 UTC",instrumentation_library_name="tracegen",kind="SPAN_KIND_INTERNAL",name="lets-go",net.peer.ip="1.2.3.4",peer.service="tracegen-server",service.name="tracegen",span.kind="client",span_id="b57e98af78c3399b",status_code="STATUS_CODE_OK",trace_id="fd6b8bb5965e726c94978c644962cdc8" 1613767825689303300
spans end_time_unix_nano="2021-02-19 20:50:25.6896741 +0000 UTC",instrumentation_library_name="tracegen",kind="SPAN_KIND_INTERNAL",name="okey-dokey",net.peer.ip="1.2.3.4",parent_span_id="6a8e6a0edcc1c966",peer.service="tracegen-client",service.name="tracegen",span.kind="server",span_id="d68f7f3b41eb8075",status_code="STATUS_CODE_OK",trace_id="651dadde186b7834c52b13a28fc27bea" 1613767825689480300

Metrics

prometheus-v1

cpu_temp,foo=bar gauge=87.332
http_requests_total,method=post,code=200 counter=1027
http_requests_total,method=post,code=400 counter=3
http_request_duration_seconds 0.05=24054,0.1=33444,0.2=100392,0.5=129389,1=133988,sum=53423,count=144320
rpc_duration_seconds 0.01=3102,0.05=3272,0.5=4773,0.9=9001,0.99=76656,sum=1.7560473e+07,count=2693

prometheus-v2

prometheus,foo=bar cpu_temp=87.332
prometheus,method=post,code=200 http_requests_total=1027
prometheus,method=post,code=400 http_requests_total=3
prometheus,le=0.05 http_request_duration_seconds_bucket=24054
prometheus,le=0.1  http_request_duration_seconds_bucket=33444
prometheus,le=0.2  http_request_duration_seconds_bucket=100392
prometheus,le=0.5  http_request_duration_seconds_bucket=129389
prometheus,le=1    http_request_duration_seconds_bucket=133988
prometheus         http_request_duration_seconds_count=144320,http_request_duration_seconds_sum=53423
prometheus,quantile=0.01 rpc_duration_seconds=3102
prometheus,quantile=0.05 rpc_duration_seconds=3272
prometheus,quantile=0.5  rpc_duration_seconds=4773
prometheus,quantile=0.9  rpc_duration_seconds=9001
prometheus,quantile=0.99 rpc_duration_seconds=76656
prometheus               rpc_duration_seconds_count=1.7560473e+07,rpc_duration_seconds_sum=2693

Logs

logs fluent.tag="fluent.info",pid=18i,ppid=9i,worker=0i 1613769568895331700
logs fluent.tag="fluent.debug",instance=1720i,queue_size=0i,stage_size=0i 1613769568895697200
logs fluent.tag="fluent.info",worker=0i 1613769568896515100

Profiles

profiles,address=95210353,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=0,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="fab9b8c848218405738c11a7ec4982e9",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=18694144u,filename="chromium",frame_type="native",location="",memory_limit=250413056u,memory_start=18698240u,stack_trace_id="hYmAzQVF8vy8MWbzsKpQNw",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306048731622020
profiles,address=15945263,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=1,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="7dab4a2e0005d025e75cc72191f8d6bf",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=15638528u,filename="dockerd",frame_type="native",location="",memory_limit=47255552u,memory_start=15638528u,stack_trace_id="4N3KEcGylb5Qoi2905c1ZA",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306049831718725
profiles,address=15952400,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=1,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="7dab4a2e0005d025e75cc72191f8d6bf",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=15638528u,filename="dockerd",frame_type="native",location="",memory_limit=47255552u,memory_start=15638528u,stack_trace_id="4N3KEcGylb5Qoi2905c1ZA",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306049831718725
profiles,address=15953899,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=1,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="7dab4a2e0005d025e75cc72191f8d6bf",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=15638528u,filename="dockerd",frame_type="native",location="",memory_limit=47255552u,memory_start=15638528u,stack_trace_id="4N3KEcGylb5Qoi2905c1ZA",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306049831718725
profiles,address=16148175,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=1,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="7dab4a2e0005d025e75cc72191f8d6bf",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=15638528u,filename="dockerd",frame_type="native",location="",memory_limit=47255552u,memory_start=15638528u,stack_trace_id="4N3KEcGylb5Qoi2905c1ZA",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306049831718725
profiles,address=4770577,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=2,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="cfc3dc7d1638c1284a6b62d4b5c0d74e",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=0u,filename="",frame_type="kernel",location="do_epoll_wait",memory_limit=0u,memory_start=0u,stack_trace_id="UaO9bysJnAYXFYobSdHXqg",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306050081621681
profiles,address=4773632,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=2,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="cfc3dc7d1638c1284a6b62d4b5c0d74e",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=0u,filename="",frame_type="kernel",location="__x64_sys_epoll_wait",memory_limit=0u,memory_start=0u,stack_trace_id="UaO9bysJnAYXFYobSdHXqg",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306050081621681
profiles,address=14783666,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=2,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="cfc3dc7d1638c1284a6b62d4b5c0d74e",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=0u,filename="",frame_type="kernel",location="do_syscall_64",memory_limit=0u,memory_start=0u,stack_trace_id="UaO9bysJnAYXFYobSdHXqg",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306050081621681
profiles,address=16777518,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=2,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="cfc3dc7d1638c1284a6b62d4b5c0d74e",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=0u,filename="",frame_type="kernel",location="entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe",memory_limit=0u,memory_start=0u,stack_trace_id="UaO9bysJnAYXFYobSdHXqg",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306050081621681
profiles,address=1139937,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=2,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="982ed6c7a77f99f0ae746be0187953bf",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=147456u,filename="libc.so.6",frame_type="native",location="",memory_limit=1638400u,memory_start=147456u,stack_trace_id="UaO9bysJnAYXFYobSdHXqg",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306050081621681
profiles,address=117834912,host.name=testbox,profile_id=618098d29a6cefd6a4c0ea806880c2a8,sample=2,sample_name=cpu,sample_type=samples,sample_type_unit=count,sample_unit=nanoseconds build_id="fab9b8c848218405738c11a7ec4982e9",build_id_type="BUILD_ID_BINARY_HASH",end_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,file_offset=18694144u,filename="chromium",frame_type="native",location="",memory_limit=250413056u,memory_start=18698240u,stack_trace_id="UaO9bysJnAYXFYobSdHXqg",start_time_unix_nano=1721306050081621681u,value=1i 1721306050081621681

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