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Raindrops Middleware Input Plugin

This plugin collects statistics for Raindrops middleware instances.

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 raindrops stats (raindrops - real-time stats for preforking Rack servers)
[[inputs.raindrops]]
  ## An array of raindrops middleware URI to gather stats.
  urls = ["http://localhost:8080/_raindrops"]

Metrics

  • raindrops
    • tags:
      • server
      • port
    • fields:
      • calling (integer, count)
      • writing (integer, count)
  • raindrops_listen
    • tags:
      • ip (IP only)
      • port (IP only)
      • socket (unix socket only)
    • fields:
      • active (integer, bytes)
      • queued (integer, bytes)

Example Output

raindrops,port=8080,server=localhost calling=0i,writing=0i 1455479896806238204
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=8080 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806561938
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=8081 active=1i,queued=0i 1455479896806605749
raindrops_listen,ip=127.0.0.1,port=8082 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806646315
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=8083 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806683252
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=8084 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806712025
raindrops_listen,ip=0.0.0.0,port=3000 active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806779197
raindrops_listen,socket=/tmp/listen.me active=0i,queued=0i 1455479896806813907

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