ActiveMQ Metrics

Ship your ActiveMQ Metrics via Telegraf to your Logit.io Stack

Configure Telegraf to ship ActiveMQ metrics to your Logit.io stacks via Logstash. This integration allows you to configure a Telegraf

Install Integration

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

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

The configuration file below is pre-configured to scrape the system metrics from your hosts, add the following code to the configuration file /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf from the previous step.

# Gather ActiveMQ metrics
[[inputs.activemq]]
  ## ActiveMQ WebConsole URL
  url = "http://127.0.0.1:8161"
 
  ## Required ActiveMQ Endpoint
  ##   deprecated in 1.11; use the url option
  # server = "192.168.50.10"
  # port = 8161
 
  ## Credentials for basic HTTP authentication
  # username = "admin"
  # password = "admin"
 
  ## Required ActiveMQ webadmin root path
  # webadmin = "admin"
 
  ## Maximum time to receive response.
  # response_timeout = "5s"
 
  ## 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

Read more about how to configure data scraping and configuration options for ActiveMQ (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 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 ActiveMQ metrics Overview

In order to efficiently monitor and analyze ActiveMQ metrics in a distributed environment, it's crucial to deploy a reliable and proficient metrics management solution. Telegraf, an open-source metrics collection agent, is an excellent tool for this purpose, capable of harvesting ActiveMQ metrics from various sources, including operational ActiveMQ instances, databases, and other associated applications.

Telegraf boasts a wide array of input plugins, empowering users to gather metrics from diverse sources such as CPU usage, memory consumption, network activity, and more. To store and interrogate these collected metrics, organizations can turn to Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting system, acclaimed for its flexible querying language and powerful graphical data visualization capabilities.

To transport ActiveMQ metrics from Telegraf to Prometheus, organizations need to configure Telegraf to output metrics in the Prometheus format, and then arrange for Prometheus to scrape these metrics from the Telegraf server. This process includes configuring Telegraf to collect ActiveMQ metrics and output them in the Prometheus format, setting up Prometheus to fetch these metrics from the Telegraf server, and then analyzing and visualizing the data using Prometheus's versatile querying and graphical visualization tools.

Once the metrics have been successfully collected into Prometheus, further analysis and visualization can be undertaken using Grafana. Grafana is an open-source platform known for its monitoring and observability, fully compatible with Prometheus. It allows users to craft dynamic, interactive dashboards, providing a more profound understanding of metrics data.

If you need any further assistance with shipping your log data to Logit.io we're here to help you get started. Feel free to get in contact with our support team by sending us a message via live chat & we'll be happy to assist.

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