Passenger Input Plugin

This plugin gathers metrics from the Phusion Passenger service.

[!WARNING] Depending on your environment, this plugin can create a high number of series which can cause high load on your database. Please use measurement filtering to manage your series cardinality!

The plugin uses the passenger-status command line tool.

[!NOTE] This plugin requires the passenger-status binary to be installed on the system and to be executable by Telegraf.

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Global configuration options

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

toml

# Read metrics of passenger using passenger-status
[[inputs.passenger]]
  ## Path of passenger-status.
  ##
  ## Plugin gather metric via parsing XML output of passenger-status
  ## More information about the tool:
  ##   https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/admin/apache/overall_status_report.html
  ##
  ## If no path is specified, then the plugin simply execute passenger-status
  ## hopefully it can be found in your PATH
  command = "passenger-status -v --show=xml"

Permissions

Telegraf must have permission to execute the passenger-status command. On most systems, Telegraf runs as the telegraf user.

Series Cardinality

Depending on your environment, this passenger_process measurement of this plugin can quickly create a high number of series which, when unchecked, can cause high load on your database. You can use the following techniques to manage your series cardinality:

Use the measurement filtering options to exclude unneeded tags. In some environments, you may wish to use tagexclude to remove the pid and process_group_id tags.
Write to a database with an appropriate retention policy.
Consider using the Time Series Index.
Monitor your databases series cardinality.

Metrics

passenger
- tags:
  - passenger_version
- fields:
  - process_count
  - max
  - capacity_used
  - get_wait_list_size
passenger_supergroup
- tags:
  - name
- fields:
  - get_wait_list_size
  - capacity_used
passenger_group
- tags:
  - name
  - app_root
  - app_type
- fields:
  - get_wait_list_size
  - capacity_used
  - processes_being_spawned
passenger_process
- tags:
  - group_name
  - app_root
  - supergroup_name
  - pid
  - code_revision
  - life_status
  - process_group_id
- fields:
  - concurrency
  - sessions
  - busyness
  - processed
  - spawner_creation_time
  - spawn_start_time
  - spawn_end_time
  - last_used
  - uptime
  - cpu
  - rss
  - pss
  - private_dirty
  - swap
  - real_memory
  - vmsize

Example Output

text

passenger,passenger_version=5.0.17 capacity_used=23i,get_wait_list_size=0i,max=23i,process_count=23i 1452984112799414257
passenger_supergroup,name=/var/app/current/public capacity_used=23i,get_wait_list_size=0i 1452984112799496977
passenger_group,app_root=/var/app/current,app_type=rack,name=/var/app/current/public capacity_used=23i,get_wait_list_size=0i,processes_being_spawned=0i 1452984112799527021
passenger_process,app_root=/var/app/current,code_revision=899ac7f,group_name=/var/app/current/public,life_status=ALIVE,pid=11553,process_group_id=13608,supergroup_name=/var/app/current/public busyness=0i,concurrency=1i,cpu=58i,last_used=1452747071764940i,private_dirty=314900i,processed=951i,pss=319391i,real_memory=314900i,rss=418548i,sessions=0i,spawn_end_time=1452746845013365i,spawn_start_time=1452746844946982i,spawner_creation_time=1452746835922747i,swap=0i,uptime=226i,vmsize=1563580i 1452984112799571490
passenger_process,app_root=/var/app/current,code_revision=899ac7f,group_name=/var/app/current/public,life_status=ALIVE,pid=11563,process_group_id=13608,supergroup_name=/var/app/current/public busyness=2147483647i,concurrency=1i,cpu=47i,last_used=1452747071709179i,private_dirty=309240i,processed=756i,pss=314036i,real_memory=309240i,rss=418296i,sessions=1i,spawn_end_time=1452746845172460i,spawn_start_time=1452746845136882i,spawner_creation_time=1452746835922747i,swap=0i,uptime=226i,vmsize=1563608i 1452984112799638581