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PHP-FPM Input Plugin

This plugin gathers statistics of the PHP FastCGI Process Manager using either the HTTP status page or the fpm socket.

Introduced in: Telegraf v0.1.10 Tags: server, web OS support: all

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

# Read metrics of phpfpm, via HTTP status page or socket
[[inputs.phpfpm]]
  ## An array of addresses to gather stats about. Specify an ip or hostname
  ## with optional port and path
  ##
  ## Plugin can be configured in three modes (either can be used):
  ##   - http: the URL must start with http:// or https://, ie:
  ##       "http://localhost/status"
  ##       "http://192.168.130.1/status?full"
  ##
  ##   - unixsocket: path to fpm socket, ie:
  ##       "/var/run/php5-fpm.sock"
  ##      or using a custom fpm status path:
  ##       "/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:fpm-custom-status-path"
  ##      glob patterns are also supported:
  ##       "/var/run/php*.sock"
  ##
  ##   - fcgi: the URL must start with fcgi:// or cgi://, and port must be present, ie:
  ##       "fcgi://10.0.0.12:9000/status"
  ##       "cgi://10.0.10.12:9001/status"
  ##
  ## Example of multiple gathering from local socket and remote host
  ## urls = ["http://192.168.1.20/status", "/tmp/fpm.sock"]
  urls = ["http://localhost/status"]

  ## Format of stats to parse, set to "status" or "json"
  ## If the user configures the URL to return JSON (e.g.
  ## http://localhost/status?json), set to JSON. Otherwise, will attempt to
  ## parse line-by-line. The JSON mode will produce additional metrics.
  # format = "status"

  ## Duration allowed to complete HTTP requests.
  # timeout = "5s"

  ## Optional TLS Config
  # tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  ## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
  # insecure_skip_verify = false

When using unixsocket, you have to ensure that telegraf runs on same host, and socket path is accessible to telegraf user.

Metrics

  • phpfpm
    • tags:
      • pool
      • url
    • fields:
      • accepted_conn
      • listen_queue
      • max_listen_queue
      • listen_queue_len
      • idle_processes
      • active_processes
      • total_processes
      • max_active_processes
      • max_children_reached
      • slow_requests
  • phpfpm_process
    • tags:
      • pool
      • request method
      • request uri
      • script
      • url
      • user
    • fields:
      • pid
      • content length
      • last request cpu
      • last request memory
      • request duration
      • requests
      • start time
      • start since
      • state

Example Output

phpfpm,pool=www accepted_conn=13i,active_processes=2i,idle_processes=1i,listen_queue=0i,listen_queue_len=0i,max_active_processes=2i,max_children_reached=0i,max_listen_queue=0i,slow_requests=0i,total_processes=3i 1453011293083331187
phpfpm,pool=www2 accepted_conn=12i,active_processes=1i,idle_processes=2i,listen_queue=0i,listen_queue_len=0i,max_active_processes=2i,max_children_reached=0i,max_listen_queue=0i,slow_requests=0i,total_processes=3i 1453011293083691422
phpfpm,pool=www3 accepted_conn=11i,active_processes=1i,idle_processes=2i,listen_queue=0i,listen_queue_len=0i,max_active_processes=2i,max_children_reached=0i,max_listen_queue=0i,slow_requests=0i,total_processes=3i 1453011293083691658

With the JSON output, additional metrics around processes are generated:

phpfpm,pool=www,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json accepted_conn=3879i,active_processes=1i,idle_processes=9i,listen_queue=0i,listen_queue_len=0i,max_active_processes=3i,max_children_reached=0i,max_listen_queue=0i,slow_requests=0i,start_since=4901i,total_processes=10i
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/fpm-status?json&full,script=-,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=583i,last_request_cpu=0,last_request_memory=0,request_duration=159i,requests=386i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Running"
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/fpm-status,script=-,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=584i,last_request_cpu=0,last_request_memory=2097152,request_duration=174i,requests=390i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Idle"
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/index.php,script=script.php,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=585i,last_request_cpu=104.93,last_request_memory=2097152,request_duration=9530i,requests=389i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Idle"
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/ping,script=-,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=586i,last_request_cpu=0,last_request_memory=2097152,request_duration=127i,requests=399i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Idle"
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/index.php,script=script.php,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=587i,last_request_cpu=0,last_request_memory=2097152,request_duration=9713i,requests=382i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Idle"
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/ping,script=-,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=588i,last_request_cpu=0,last_request_memory=2097152,request_duration=133i,requests=383i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Idle"
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/fpm-status?json,script=-,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=589i,last_request_cpu=0,last_request_memory=2097152,request_duration=154i,requests=381i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Idle"
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/ping,script=-,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=590i,last_request_cpu=0,last_request_memory=2097152,request_duration=108i,requests=397i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Idle"
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/index.php,script=script.php,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=591i,last_request_cpu=110.28,last_request_memory=2097152,request_duration=9068i,requests=381i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Idle"
phpfpm_process,pool=www,request_method=GET,request_uri=/index.php,script=script.php,url=http://127.0.0.1:44637?full&json,user=- content_length=0i,pid=592i,last_request_cpu=64.27,last_request_memory=2097152,request_duration=15559i,requests=391i,start_time=1702044927i,state="Idle"

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