Monitoring Application Services and
Operating Systems using Open Source Telegraf
You can use open source Telegraf that runs on a
vCenter Server
VM to send metrics to VMware Aria
Operations
using a helper script or by providing specific configurations
required on the end point to post metrics to cloud proxy. The helper script adds necessary
configurations in the Telegraf configuration that is directly identified by VMware Aria
Operations
. You can monitor application services and
operating systems that are supported by
VMware Aria
Operations
and you can also monitor unsupported application services. For a
list of supported application services, see Supported Application Services.Open source Telegraf is supported on Linux
and Windows platforms.
Notice:
VMware
supports only the installation of open source Telegraf because there is a configuration
required to point it to the VMware Aria
Operations
cloud proxy. After the initial configuration is complete, and we
have made sure that the metrics are received consistently for a couple of end points,
and there are no common patterns of failures observed on VMware Aria
Operations
, no further
support is offered from VMware. Any other queries on the agent has to go through the
Telegraf open source community. Issues related to Telegraf can be raised through: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues.Points to Note
As you can monitor both supported and
unsupported application services using open source Telegraf, keep in mind the
following points.
- There are no alerts generated for non-supported application services.
- You cannot add metrics for supported application services.
- Application service objects that are not supported are named as follows:<application service name_Generic>
- Metrics for unsupported application services are displayed without proper categorization and appears as is from Telegraf.
- Metrics for unsupported application services are not localized and are provided only in English.
- If there are multiple instances of unsupported application services, to distinguish between them in the user interface, add the tag 'identifier' and provide a unique tag value in thetelegraf.conffile. Example, [inputs.mongodb.tags] identifier="1".
- If multiple instances of the same supported application service is monitored by open source Telegraf, in the user interface, the display name is the same for all instances of the application service. To differentiate between the instances of the same application service, edit the display name from the user interface and provide a specific name.
- Inactivated application services with a managed agent are displayed as activated in theManage Telegraf Agentspage. Uninstall managed agents before you use open source Telegraf.
- Telegraf version 1.19.0 is not supported when you use open source Telegraf.