step4

Objective

1. Gather statistics using telegraf

Telegraf

In this example, we'll add telegraf that will gather the container metrics

  telegraf:
    image: telegraf:1.5
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock
      - ./telegraf.conf:/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf:ro
    links:
      - kafka-1
      - kafka-2
      - kafka-3

Note: we specified the unless-stopped restart policy as telegraf will fail to start if the cluster is not already ready.

Note: In order for telegraf to gather docker metrics, we provide it the docker socket as a volume mapping.

The telegraf.conf is the following

[agent]
interval = "5s"

[[inputs.docker]]
endpoint = "unix:///tmp/docker.sock"

[[outputs.kafka]]
brokers = ["kafka-1:9092","kafka-2:9092","kafka-3:9092"]
topic = "telegraf"

Let's run it

$ docker-compose exec kafka-1 kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server kafka-1:9092 --topic telegraf
docker_container_mem,container_version=unknown,com.docker.compose.service=kafka-1,io.confluent.docker=true,com.docker.compose.config-hash=50c870843a239004389079d1baf9067fe0fc0339701905f19af63240a358e2a2,com.docker.compose.container-number=1,com.docker.compose.version=1.17.1,com.docker.compose.project=step4,engine_host=moby,container_name=step4_kafka-1_1,container_image=confluentinc/cp-kafka,io.confluent.docker.git.id=e0c39c6,io.confluent.docker.build.number=None,com.docker.compose.oneoff=False,host=af95c0c993d7 total_pgfault=340388i,total_pgpgin=238572i,total_active_file=180224i,unevictable=0i,inactive_file=294912i,pgpgin=238572i,pgpgout=140181i,rss_huge=0i,total_pgmajfault=0i,total_rss_huge=0i,active_file=180224i,hierarchical_memory_limit=9223372036854771712i,pgmajfault=0i,total_rss=402534400i,total_mapped_file=65536i,max_usage=416272384i,total_active_anon=402452480i,total_inactive_anon=0i,total_inactive_file=294912i,total_unevictable=0i,active_anon=402452480i,rss=402534400i,total_cache=475136i,total_writeback=0i,limit=8096448512i,container_id="37f9bc055227429ee9e0cbb5444c1af3c99746ccda1e17b532e3428f6b969c00",cache=475136i,inactive_anon=0i,mapped_file=65536i,pgfault=340388i,total_pgpgout=140181i,writeback=0i,usage=410337280i,usage_percent=5.062246037784721 1514759002000000000
docker_container_cpu,container_image=telegraf,com.docker.compose.oneoff=False,host=af95c0c993d7,container_name=step4_telegraf_1,com.docker.compose.config-hash=1f7ea37af395ca2db227212f76765d1970dfc55b618b26e39c63b977caa6e015,com.docker.compose.container-number=1,com.docker.compose.service=telegraf,cpu=cpu-total,container_version=1.5,com.docker.compose.project=step4,com.docker.compose.version=1.17.1,engine_host=moby usage_total=150416778i,usage_in_kernelmode=70000000i,throttling_periods=0i,throttling_throttled_periods=0i,usage_percent=0.1428634020618557,usage_in_usermode=80000000i,usage_system=94619910000000i,throttling_throttled_time=0i,container_id="af95c0c993d72f43ca2145af32d723d5ec92dbd387c330491e643286687b05b3" 1514759002000000000

docker_container_cpu,com.docker.compose.container-number=1,host=af95c0c993d7,container_version=1.5,com.docker.compose.project=step4,com.docker.compose.version=1.17.1,engine_host=moby,container_name=step4_telegraf_1,com.docker.compose.config-hash=1f7ea37af395ca2db227212f76765d1970dfc55b618b26e39c63b977caa6e015,cpu=cpu0,container_image=telegraf,com.docker.compose.oneoff=False,com.docker.compose.service=telegraf usage_total=3819059i,container_id="af95c0c993d72f43ca2145af32d723d5ec92dbd387c330491e643286687b05b3" 1514759002000000000

docker_container_cpu,com.docker.compose.oneoff=False,com.docker.compose.project=step4,host=af95c0c993d7,container_name=step4_telegraf_1,com.docker.compose.config-hash=1f7ea37af395ca2db227212f76765d1970dfc55b618b26e39c63b977caa6e015,com.docker.compose.service=telegraf,com.docker.compose.version=1.17.1,container_image=telegraf,container_version=1.5,cpu=cpu1,engine_host=moby,com.docker.compose.container-number=1 container_id="af95c0c993d72f43ca2145af32d723d5ec92dbd387c330491e643286687b05b3",usage_total=45071361i 1514759002000000000
...
...

Fine ! We have real data that mean something.

Telegraf topic

Let's describe the telegraf topic

$ docker-compose exec kafka-1 kafka-topics  --zookeeper zookeeper:2181 --describe --topic telegraf
Topic:telegraf	PartitionCount:1	ReplicationFactor:1	Configs:
	Topic: telegraf	Partition: 0	Leader: 3	Replicas: 3	Isr: 3

PartitionCount:1 and ReplicationFactor:1 ? Not a good configuration.

Let's change that https://docs.confluent.io/current/kafka/post-deployment.html#tweaking-configs-dynamically and https://docs.confluent.io/current/kafka/post-deployment.html#modifying-topics

$ docker-compose exec kafka-1 kafka-topics  --zookeeper zookeeper:2181 --alter --topic telegraf --partitions 10
WARNING: If partitions are increased for a topic that has a key, the partition logic or ordering of the messages will be affected
Adding partitions succeeded!

Fine let's do the same for the replication-factor right ?

Well, by reading the increasing replication factor documentation it seems like it's more complicated than thought.

Please take the time to understand why it's not as simple as addition partition.

Do not forget to read the scaling-the-cluster chapter.

The full action ?