Google VM Manager Metrics via Telegraf

Ship your Google VM Manager Metrics via Telegraf to your Logit.io Stack

Configure Telegraf to ship Google VM Manager metrics to your Logit.io stacks via Logstash.

Install Integration

Please click on the Install Integration button to configure your stack for this source.

Set Credentials in GCP

@intro

Begin by heading over to the 'Project Selector' (opens in a new tab) and select the specific project from which you wish to send metrics.
- Progress to the 'Service Account Details' screen. Here, assign a distinct name to your service account and opt for 'Create and Continue'.
- In the 'Grant This Service Account Access to Project' screen, ensure the following roles: 'Compute Viewer', 'Monitoring Viewer', and 'Cloud Asset Viewer'.
- Upon completion of the above, click 'Done'.
- Now find and select your project in the 'Service Accounts for Project' list.
- Move to the 'KEYS' section.
- Navigate through Keys > Add Key > Create New Key, and specify 'JSON' as the key type.
- Lastly, click on 'Create', and make sure to save your new key.
Now add the environment variable for the key

On the machine run:
```
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<your-gcp-key>
```

Install Telegraf

This integration allows you to configure a Telegraf agent to send your metrics, in multiple formats, to Logit.io.

Choose the installation method for your operating system:

When you paste the command below into Powershell it will download the Telegraf zip file. Once that is complete, press Enter again and the zip file will be extracted into C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf\telegraf-1.31.2.

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.31.2_windows_amd64.zip -UseBasicParsing -OutFile telegraf-1.31.2_windows_amd64.zip 
Expand-Archive .\telegraf-1.31.2_windows_amd64.zip -DestinationPath 'C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf'

Configure the Telegraf input plugin

First you need to set up the input plug-in to enable Telegraf to scrape the GCP data from your hosts. This can be accomplished by incorporating the following code into your configuration file:

# Gather timeseries from Google Cloud Platform v3 monitoring API
[[inputs.stackdriver]]
  ## GCP Project
  project = "<your-project-name>"
 
  ## Include timeseries that start with the given metric type.
  metric_type_prefix_include = [
	"@metric_type",
  ]
 
  ## Most metrics are updated no more than once per minute; it is recommended
  ## to override the agent level interval with a value of 1m or greater.
  interval = "1m"

Read more about how to configure data scraping and configuration options for Stackdriver (opens in a new tab)

Configure the output plugin

Once you have generated the configuration file, you need to set up the output plug-in to allow Telegraf to transmit your data to Logit.io in Prometheus format. This can be accomplished by incorporating the following code into your configuration file:

[[outputs.http]]
  url = "https://@metricsUsername:@metricsPassword@@metrics_id-vm.logit.io:@vmAgentPort/api/v1/write"
  data_format = "prometheusremotewrite"
 
  [outputs.http.headers]
    Content-Type = "application/x-protobuf"
    Content-Encoding = "snappy"

Start Telegraf

From the location where Telegraf was installed (C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf\telegraf-1.31.2) run the program providing the chosen configuration file as a parameter:

.\telegraf.exe --config telegraf-demo.conf

Once Telegraf is running you should see output similar to the following, which confirms the inputs, output and basic configuration the application has been started with: Powershell Telegraf information

View your metrics

Data should now have been sent to your Stack.

View My Data

If you don't see metrics take a look at How to diagnose no data in Stack below for how to diagnose common issues.

How to diagnose no data in Stack

If you don't see data appearing in your Stack after following the steps, visit the Help Centre guide for steps to diagnose no data appearing in your Stack or Chat to support now.

Telegraf Google VM Manager Platform metrics Overview

Integrating Telegraf with Google VM Manager enables organizations to closely monitor their VMs' health, performance, and security status. This integration is pivotal for IT and operations teams to ensure their cloud infrastructure operates optimally and securely. By collecting metrics on system updates, configuration changes, and security vulnerabilities, teams can gain actionable insights into their VM fleet, facilitating proactive maintenance and swift response to potential issues.

However, the vast amount of data generated from monitoring VMs can be overwhelming and complex to analyze. Logit.io offers a robust solution to these challenges by providing an advanced analytics platform that simplifies the process of ingesting, processing, visualizing, and analyzing metrics from Telegraf and Google VM Manager.

With Logit.io, organizations can enhance their VM monitoring and management strategies, enabling them to identify and mitigate issues more efficiently, optimize resource utilization, and ensure their cloud environments adhere to security and compliance standards. The platform's advanced analytics capabilities support informed decision-making and operational excellence, ensuring high availability and performance of cloud-based VMs.

For those leveraging Telegraf in conjunction with Google VM Manager and seeking to improve their cloud infrastructure monitoring and analytics, Logit.io provides the necessary tools and support. Our platform helps manage the complexity of cloud-based VM data, allowing you to gain actionable insights and maintain a robust, secure cloud environment. By connecting your Google Cloud resources to Logit.io, you can effortlessly monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot your virtual machines' health in real-time. Moreover, Logit.io also supports an array of Google Cloud services, such as Google Recommendations metrics and Google Pub Sub metrics. By harnessing the power of Logit.io, you can effortlessly manage and optimize these services as well, ensuring your cloud environment remains efficient and secure. Unified integration is a hallmark of Logit.io's GCP logging (opens in a new tab) service.

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