Nmon plugin

[dadolab]

Hello

did you foreseen a nmon plugin?

Thanks

[sparrc]

Not at the moment, what do you need it for? You should be able to get all the info in nmon using Telegraf's system and kernel metric plugins

[dadolab]

I have several AIX and linux server that are collecting system metric using, I would like to collect this metric in influxdb

[sparrc]

@dadolab would you like to collect it from an nmon csv file? Or run nmon at collection time and parse stdout?

[dadolab]

It would be nice to have it at collection time to have online, but also have it collected daily from nmon file/csv will be enough

But for AIX will be possible to have telegraf binary?

[sparrc]

@dadolab I don't think this will be possible for a loooooong time, Go doesn't support AIX: golang/go#7208

[mark-rushakoff]

Until a plugin is written... there's a standalone tool out there that takes an nmon file and imports it into InfluxDB. I haven't used it myself but I've stumbled across it while curating awesome-influxdb.

[dadolab]

@mark-rushakoff: I'm already using nmon2influxdb, but the "upload" is manual/offline

[thaentzler]

Seems like golang is available for aix now : https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Go%20compilers%20on%20Power

So maybe things will move. But difficulty here is that aix doesn't really work like linux.... So standard sys plugin will not work as expected.

Collectd could be a good alternative.

[dadolab]

it looks like it will be available only for linux on power, not yet for AIX (and unfortunately no info about it...)

[freebsdly]

you can use a script to report nmon file to telegraf http listener plugin

[toni-moreno]

Here a new and rewritted version of the nmon2influxdb, for AIX and nmon based info with ssh access.

https://github.com/adejoux/pSeriesCollector

[russorat]

I believe there is also a tool called nimon available that reports nmon stats directly to influxdb via line protocol. See http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php?n=Site.Njmon for more info. That combined with the influxdb_listener input could send metrics to any output.

[toni-moreno]

This tool (https://github.com/adejoux/pSeriesCollector) read PSeries HMC stats and also does real time remote "tail -f" via ssh and parse nmon files.

I think ..it could work without lpar autodiscovery and only does remote nmon parser from any vm ( lpar or not lpar)

[nigelargriffiths]

I am the developer of the nmon and njmon/nimon mentioned above - nimon is meant to be the replacement for nmon and has many time the number of stats. It also works in the Virtual I/O Server (AIX based) and captures virtual devices.
nimon output InfluxDB Line Protocol direct to InfluxDB or Telegraf. njmon output JSON data and can be used with a njmond.py central collection point to save the JSON on inject in to InfluxDB. ON a small virtual machines it collects ~1500 stats. I think we have AIX covered.
If not let me know. My email can be found on the open source project website: http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php?n=Site.Njmon

[powersj]

Hi,

Thanks for the interest in this plugin. Per the previous comment, given the enormous amount of data points that nmon/nimon/njmon collect, and the availability of njmon to output to JSON data, I will close this request.

Users who use this tool can output to JSON and then use Telegraf to parse the JSON and send it to their output of choice.

Thanks!