Deployment of an InfluxDb platform (TICK stack) with docker compose.

This solution provides a basis for quickly deploying a local monitoring system for testing. Not to be used in production !

This stack is composed of:

• Telegram
• InfluxDB2
• Chronograph
• Kapacitor

Installing and configuring rsyslog

sudo apt install rsyslog
sudo vim /etc/rsyslog.d/50-telegraf.conf

Contents of the file "50-telegraf.conf”

$ActionQueueType LinkedList # use asynchronous processing
$ActionQueueFileName srvrfwd # set file name, also enables disk mode
$ActionResumeRetryCount -1 # infinite retries on insert failure
$ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on # save in-memory data if rsyslog shuts down

# forward over tcp with octet framing according to RFC 5425
*.* @@(o)127.0.0.1:6514;RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format

# uncomment to use udp according to RFC 5424
#*.* @127.0.0.1:6514;RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format

Enabling the rsyslog service

sudo systemctl enable rsyslog
sudo systemctl start rsyslog

Deploying the TICK stack

git clone https://github.com/dma65ml/tick-stack.git
cd  tick-stack
# The init.sh file can be modified to customize the installation
./init.sh

Configuring the Chronograf environment

After initializing the stack, access the Chronograf page http://ipadress:8888/ to finalize the installation.

In the Configuration section select “InfluxDB Connection”.

Enable “InfluxDB v2 Auth” mode, report information from the .env file. For "Default Retention Policy" enter "autogen”.

Select preconfigured Dashboards in Telegraf

Indicate the URL of the kapacitor container "http://kapacitor:9092"

Congratulations your TICK stack is configured

Exploitation of the TICK stack

Once started, two pages are accessible from your browser:

• Chronograph http://ipadress:8888/
• InfluxDB http://ipadress:8086/

The docker compose down command stops the stack,

The command docker compose up -d restarts it.

The clean.sh script deletes the stack and volumes