Ansible Role Telegraf

Telegraf is an agent written in Go for collecting metrics from the system it's running on, or from other services, and writing them into InfluxDB or other outputs.

Inspired by https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf

Requirements

None

Role Variables

The variables that can be passed to this role and a brief description about them are as follows. (For all variables, take a look at defaults/main.yml)

# Global tags.
telegraf_tags: 
  dc: 'us-east-1'

# Default data collection interval for all inputs.
telegraf_agent_interval: '10s'

# Default flushing interval for all outputs. You shouldn't set this below interval.
telegraf_agent_flush_interval: '10s'

# Override default hostname, if empty use os.Hostname().
telegraf_agent_hostname: ''

# Output plugins.
telegraf_outputs:
  influxdb:
    config:
      - urls = ["http://localhost:8086"]
      - database = "telegraf"

# Default input plugins.
telegraf_inputs_default:
  cpu:
    config:
      - percpu = true
      - totalcpu = true
      - fielddrop = ["time_*"]
  disk:
    config:
      - ignore_fs = ["tmpfs", "devtmpfs"]
  diskio:
  kernel:
  mem:
  processes:
  swap:
  system:

# Additional input plugins.
telegraf_inputs_extra: 
  ping:
    config:
      - urls = ["www.google.com"]
      - count = 1

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: mkubenka.telegraf }

License

BSD

Author Information

Michal Kubenka mkubenka@gmail.com