Google BigQuery Output Plugin

This plugin writes metrics to the Google Cloud BigQuery service and requires authentication with Google Cloud using either a service account or user credentials.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.18.0 Tags: cloud, datastore 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

# Configuration for Google Cloud BigQuery to send entries
[[outputs.bigquery]]
  ## Credentials File
  credentials_file = "/path/to/service/account/key.json"

  ## Google Cloud Platform Project
  # project = ""

  ## The namespace for the metric descriptor
  dataset = "telegraf"

  ## Timeout for BigQuery operations.
  # timeout = "5s"

  ## Character to replace hyphens on Metric name
  # replace_hyphen_to = "_"

  ## Write all metrics in a single compact table
  # compact_table = ""

Leaving project empty indicates the plugin will try to retrieve the project from the credentials file.

Requires dataset to specify under which BigQuery dataset the corresponding metrics tables reside.

Each metric should have a corresponding table to BigQuery. The schema of the table on BigQuery:

• Should contain the field timestamp which is the timestamp of a telegraph metrics
• Should contain the metric’s tags with the same name and the column type should be set to string.
• Should contain the metric’s fields with the same name and the column type should match the field type.

Compact table

When enabling the compact table, all metrics are inserted to the given table with the following schema:

[
  {
    "mode": "REQUIRED",
    "name": "timestamp",
    "type": "TIMESTAMP"
  },
  {
    "mode": "REQUIRED",
    "name": "name",
    "type": "STRING"
  },
  {
    "mode": "REQUIRED",
    "name": "tags",
    "type": "JSON"
  },
  {
    "mode": "REQUIRED",
    "name": "fields",
    "type": "JSON"
  }
]

Restrictions

Avoid hyphens on BigQuery tables, underlying SDK cannot handle streaming inserts to Table with hyphens.

In cases of metrics with hyphens please use the Rename Processor Plugin.

In case of a metric with hyphen by default hyphens shall be replaced with underscores (_). This can be altered using the replace_hyphen_to configuration property.

Available data type options are:

• integer
• float or long
• string
• boolean

All field naming restrictions that apply to BigQuery should apply to the measurements to be imported.

Tables on BigQuery should be created beforehand and they are not created during persistence

Pay attention to the column timestamp since it is reserved upfront and cannot change. If partitioning is required make sure it is applied beforehand.