TICK Stack

Simple Docker setup for the TICK (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf and Kapacitor) stack.

NOTE: This is not an recommended for a highly available and performant Production stack.

Getting Started

The simplest way forward is to run the following scripts:

./build.sh
./run.sh

This will build the image and then run a simple configuration that will work nicely for local development or a test server.

Detail

On MacOSX / Windows, we essentially create a data volume container and then mount that volume from the TICK container as follows:

VOLUME_CONTAINER_GUID=$(
  docker create \
    --name tick-data \
    -v "/data/influx/data" \
    -v "/data/influx/wal" \
    -v "/data/influx/meta" \
    -v "/data/kapacitor" \
    -v "/data/chronograf" \
    mefellows/tick \
    /dev/null
)

docker run \
  -d \
  -p 8086:8086 \
  -p 8125:8125/udp \
  -p 10000:10000 \
  --name tick \
  --volumes-from $VOLUME_CONTAINER_GUID \
  mefellows/tick
docker exec -i -t tick curl -G http://localhost:8086/query --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE telegraf"
docker exec -i -t tick bash # now you can do stuff

NOTE: due to file system requirements, mounting volumes as per below only works on environments with native Docker.

Sending and Viewing Metrics

On Mac OSX, using netcat:

echo "somemetric:1000|c" | nc -c -u docker 8125

Visit http://docker:10000 to view your sweet sweet metrics.

Running in Production

docker run \
  --name tick \
  -d \
  -p 8086:8086 -p 8125:8125/udp -p 10000:10000 \
  -v "$PWD/.influxdb/data:/data/influx/data" \
  -v "$PWD/.influxdb/wal:/data/influx/wal" \
  -v "$PWD/.influxdb/meta:/data/influx/meta" \
  -v "$PWD/.influxdb/kapacitor:/data/kapacitor" \
  -v "$PWD/.influxdb/chronograf:/data/chronograf" \
  mefellows/tick

Mount /data/influx/data, /data/influx/meta, /data/influx/wal, /data/chronograf and /data/kapacitor to (ideally separate - particularly the data and wal ones) persisted volumes (e.g. EBS volumes).