Unbound

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

Follow the steps below to send your observability data to Logit.io

Metrics

Configure Telegraf to ship Unbound metrics to your Logit.io stacks via Logstash.

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.

# A plugin to collect stats from the Unbound DNS resolver
[[inputs.unbound]]
  ## Address of server to connect to, read from unbound conf default, optionally ':port'
  ## Will lookup IP if given a hostname
  server = "127.0.0.1:8953"
 
  ## If running as a restricted user you can prepend sudo for additional access:
  # use_sudo = false
 
  ## The default location of the unbound-control binary can be overridden with:
  # binary = "/usr/sbin/unbound-control"
 
  ## The default location of the unbound config file can be overridden with:
  # config_file = "/etc/unbound/unbound.conf"
 
  ## The default timeout of 1s can be overridden with:
  # timeout = "1s"
 
  ## When set to true, thread metrics are tagged with the thread id.
  ##
  ## The default is false for backwards compatibility, and will be changed to
  ## true in a future version.  It is recommended to set to true on new
  ## deployments.
  thread_as_tag = false

Read more about how to configure data scraping and configuration options for Unbound (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 this integration, take a look at the troubleshooting guide for steps to diagnose and resolve the problem or contact our support team and we'll be happy to assist.

Telegraf Unbound Overview

In order to effectively monitor and analyze Unbound metrics in a distributed system, it's crucial to have a robust and efficient metrics management solution. Telegraf, an open-source metrics collection agent, is a perfect tool for this purpose, able to collect Unbound metrics from a wide range of sources, including operational Unbound servers, databases, and other associated applications.

Telegraf comes with an extensive set of input plugins, allowing users to gather metrics from diverse sources such as CPU usage, memory consumption, network activity, and more. For storing and examining these collected metrics, organizations can use Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting system renowned for its flexible querying language and advanced graphical data visualization capabilities.

To ship Unbound metrics from Telegraf to Prometheus, organizations need to configure Telegraf to output metrics in the Prometheus format, and then establish Prometheus to scrape these metrics from the Telegraf server. This process involves setting up Telegraf to collect Unbound metrics, outputting them in the Prometheus format, configuring Prometheus to pull these metrics from the Telegraf server, and then visually interpreting the data using Prometheus's dynamic querying and graphical visualization tools.

Once the metrics are successfully ingested into Prometheus, further analysis and visualization can be performed using Grafana. Grafana is an open-source platform well-known for its monitoring and observability capabilities, and is fully compatible with Prometheus. It allows users to build dynamic, interactive dashboards, providing a deeper dive into the metrics data and a more comprehensive understanding of performance trends and potential issues.

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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