topic Create new dimensions from collectd in Getting Data In

Create new dimensions from collectd

theouhuios — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:15:42 GMT

Hello

I am trying to get metrics data into Splunk using collectd and metrics seems to be coming in fine. Want to add more context to the data by adding tags and was wondering how to get them be handled as dimensions

Sending the test data like below

curl -k https://x.x.x.x:8088/services/collector/raw?sourcetype=collectd_http   -H "Authorization: Splunk xxxxx"                                      -d '[{"values":[164.9196798931339196],"dstypes":["derive"],"dsnames":["value"],"time":1540317794.894,"interval":10.000,"host":"splunkserver:10.1.1.1.","plugin":"protocols","plugin_instance":"IpExt","type":"protocol_counter","type_instance":"InOctets","fields":{"region":"us-east-1","datacenter":"us-east-1a"}}]'

It seems to be posting in fine, was wondering if I can create a custom sourcetype for collectd and make all fields as dimensions? Any ideas?

Re: Create new dimensions from collectd

dauren_akilbeko — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:59:23 GMT

You can use splunk_write plugin for that, which can be found in unix-agent.tgz. More info here http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/InfraApp/1.2.0/Admin/ManageAgents.

Re: Create new dimensions from collectd

theouhuios — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:33:49 GMT

Yes, seen this and we have got it to work using this approach. However one thing that was observed is that with regular collectd rpm it doesn't work. We had to follow the compile steps to get it to work. I wonder why do we need to compile? It's basically from the same source. Question now is why wont write_splunk plugin work directly with the rpm version of collectd