Victoria Metrics vmagent
Ship metrics using VictoriaMetrics vmagent
Vmagent is a tiny but mighty agent which helps you collect metrics from various sources and store them in VictoriaMetrics
Metrics
Install Integration
Please click on the Install Integration button to configure your stack for this source.
Confirm you have Helm Installed
Confirm you have Helm installed and available.
Helm Install Docs (opens in a new tab)
Add VictoriaMetrics Helm Chart
Run the following to add the Victoria Metrics Helm chart.
helm repo add vm https://victoriametrics.github.io/helm-charts/
Export Default Configuration YAML
Export the default configuration to a yaml file so that we can make an edit.
helm show values vm/victoria-metrics-agent >> vmagent-kubernetes.yml
Add remoteWriteUrls
Open the exported configuration in a text editor to add in the remoteWriteUrls.
You will need to edit Line 65 of the vmagent-kubernetes.yml
From:
# WARN: need to specify at least one remote write url or one multi tenant url
remoteWriteUrls: []
# remoteWriteUrls:
# - http://vm-insert:8480/insert/0/prometheus
# - http://prometheus:8480/insert/0/prometheus
To:
# WARN: need to specify at least one remote write url or one multi tenant url
remoteWriteUrls: ["https://@metricsUsername:@metricsPassword@@metrics_id-vm.logit.io:@vmAgentPort/api/v1/write"]
# remoteWriteUrls:
# - http://vm-insert:8480/insert/0/prometheus
# - http://prometheus:8480/insert/0/prometheus
Install Helm Chart
You are now ready to install the helm chart.
helm --namespace=victoriametrics install vmagent vm/victoria-metrics-agent --create-namespace -f vmagent-kubernetes.yml