Kibana Input Plugin

This plugin collects metrics about service status from Kibana instances via the server's API.

[!NOTE] This plugin requires Kibana version 6.0+.

⭐ Telegraf v1.8.0 🏷️ applications, server 💻 all

Global configuration options <!-- @/docs/includes/plugin_config.md -->

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Read status information from one or more Kibana servers
[[inputs.kibana]]
  ## Specify a list of one or more Kibana servers
  servers = ["http://localhost:5601"]

  ## Timeout for HTTP requests
  timeout = "5s"

  ## HTTP Basic Auth credentials
  # username = "username"
  # password = "pa$$word"

  ## Optional TLS Config
  # tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  ## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
  # insecure_skip_verify = false

  ## If 'use_system_proxy' is set to true, Telegraf will check env vars such as
  ## HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, and NO_PROXY (or their lowercase counterparts).
  ## If 'use_system_proxy' is set to false (default) and 'http_proxy_url' is
  ## provided, Telegraf will use the specified URL as HTTP proxy.
  # use_system_proxy = false
  # http_proxy_url = "http://localhost:8888"

Metrics

• kibana
  • tags:
    • name (Kibana reported name)
    • source (Kibana server hostname or IP)
    • status (Kibana health: green, yellow, red)
    • version (Kibana version)
  • fields:
    • status_code (integer, green=1 yellow=2 red=3 unknown=0)
    • heap_total_bytes (integer)
    • heap_max_bytes (integer; deprecated in 1.13.3: use heap_total_bytes field)
    • heap_used_bytes (integer)
    • heap_size_limit (integer)
    • uptime_ms (integer)
    • response_time_avg_ms (float)
    • response_time_max_ms (integer)
    • concurrent_connections (integer)
    • requests_per_sec (float)

Example Output

kibana,host=myhost,name=my-kibana,source=localhost:5601,status=green,version=6.5.4 concurrent_connections=8i,heap_max_bytes=447778816i,heap_total_bytes=447778816i,heap_used_bytes=380603352i,requests_per_sec=1,response_time_avg_ms=57.6,response_time_max_ms=220i,status_code=1i,uptime_ms=6717489805i 1534864502000000000

Run example environment

Requires the following tools:

• Docker
• Docker Compose

From the root of this project execute the following script: ./plugins/inputs/kibana/test_environment/run_test_env.sh

This will build the latest Telegraf and then start up Kibana and Elasticsearch, Telegraf will begin monitoring Kibana's status and write its results to the file /tmp/metrics.out in the Telegraf container.

Then you can attach to the telegraf container to inspect the file /tmp/metrics.out to see if the status is being reported.

The Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers extension provides an easy user interface to attach to the running container.