Export vSphere stats to graphite.

Written in go as the integration collectd and python plugin posed too much problems (cpu usage and pipe flood).

Bellow a dashboard realize with grafana. The backend used in this case is influxdb.

Naturaly heavilly based on govmomi.

But also on daemon which provides simple daemon/service integration.

You need to know you vcenters, logins and password ;-)

If you set a domain, it will be automaticaly removed from found objects.

Metrics collected are defined by associating ObjectType groups with Metric groups. They are expressed via the vsphere scheme: group.metric.rollup

An example of configuration file of contoso.com is there.

You need to place it at /etc/binaryname.json (/etc/vsphere-graphite.json per default)

For contoso it would simply be:

cp vsphere-graphite-example.json vsphere-graphite.json

Backend paramters can also be set via environement paramterers (see docker)

• Type (BACKEND_TYPE): Type of backend to use. Currently "graphite" or "influxdb"

• Hostname (BACKEND_HOSTNAME): hostname were the backend is running (graphite, influxdb)

• Port (BACKEND_PORT): port to connect to for the backend (graphite, influxdb)

• Username (BACKEND_USERNAME): username to connect to the backend (influxdb)

• Password (BACKEND_PASSWORD): password to connect to the backend (influxdb)

• Database (BACKEND_DATABASE): database to use in the backend (influxdb)

• NoArray (BACKEND_NOARRAY): don't use csv 'array' as tags, only the first element is used (influxdb)

All builds are pushed to docker:

• cblomart/vsphere-graphite

• cblomart/rpi-vsphere-graphite

Default tags includes:

• branch (i.e.: master) for latest commit in the branch

• latest for latest release

Configration file can be passed by mounting /etc.

Backend parameters can be set via environment variables to make docker user easier (having graphite or influx as another container).

Edit the configuration file and set it in the place you like here $(pwd)

docker run -t -v $(pwd)/vsphere-graphite.json:/etc/vsphere-graphite.json cblomart/vsphere-graphite:latest

typical GO:

go get github.com/cblomart/vsphere-graphite

The executable should be in $GOPATH/bin/

It can be copied on any "same system" (same: os and cpu platform).

vsphere-graphite

vsphere-graphite install

vsphere-graphite start

vsphere-graphite status

vsphere-graphite stop

vsphere-graphite remove

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