/ccloudexporter

Prometheus exporter for Confluent Cloud API metric

Primary LanguageGo

Important information

In previous versions, it was possible to rely on username/password to authenticate to Confluent Cloud. Nowadays, only the API key/secret is officially supported to connect to the Metrics API.

To ensure backward compatibility, previous environment variables are still available. Nonetheless, username/password is now deprecated and you must rely on API key/secret.

Prometheus exporter for Confluent Cloud Metrics API

A simple prometheus exporter that can be used to extract metrics from Confluent Cloud Metric API. By default, the exporter will be exposing the metrics on port 2112 To use the exporter, the following environment variables need to be specified:

  • CCLOUD_API_KEY: The API Key created with ccloud api-key create --resource cloud
  • CCLOUD_API_SECRET: The API Key Secret created with ccloud api-key create --resource cloud

CCLOUD_API_KEY and CCLOUD_API_SECRET environment variables will be used to invoke the https://api.telemetry.confluent.cloud endpoint.

Usage

./ccloudexporter -cluster <cluster_id>

Options

Usage of ./ccloudexporter:
  -cluster string
    	Cluster ID to fetch metric for. If not specified, the environment variable CCLOUD_CLUSTER will be used
  -config string
    	Path to configuration file used to override default behavior of ccloudexporter
  -delay int
    	Delay, in seconds, to fetch the metrics. By default set to 120, this, in order to avoid temporary data points. (default 120)
  -endpoint string
    	Base URL for the Metric API (default "https://api.telemetry.confluent.cloud/")
  -granularity string
    	Granularity for the metrics query, by default set to 1 minutes (default "PT1M")
  -listener string
    	Listener for the HTTP interface (default ":2112")
  -no-timestamp
    	Do not propagate the timestamp from the the metrics API to prometheus
  -timeout int
    	Timeout, in second, to use for all REST call with the Metric API (default 60)
  -version
    	Print the current version and exit

Examples

Building and executing

go get github.com/Dabz/ccloudexporter/cmd/ccloudexporter
go install github.com/Dabz/ccloudexporter/cmd/ccloudexporter
export CCLOUD_API_KEY=ABCDEFGHIKLMNOP
export CCLOUD_API_SECRET=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
./ccloudexporter -cluster lkc-abc123

Using docker

docker run \
  -e CCLOUD_API_KEY=$CCLOUD_API_KEY \
  -e CCLOUD_API_SECRET=$CCLOUD_API_SECRET
  -e CCLOUD_CLUSTER=lkc-abc123
  -p 2112:2112
  dabz/ccloudexporter:latest

Using docker-compose

export CCLOUD_API_KEY=ABCDEFGHIKLMNOP
export CCLOUD_API_SECRET=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export CCLOUD_CLUSTER=lkc-abc123
docker-compose up -d

Configuration file

For more advanced deployment, you could specify a YAML configuration file with the -config flag. If you do not provide a configuration file, the exporter creates one from the provided flags.

Configuration

Global configuration

Key Description Default value
config.http.baseurl Base URL for the Metric API https://api.telemetry.confluent.cloud/
config.http.timeout Timeout, in second, to use for all REST call with the Metric API 60
config.listener Listener for the HTTP interface :2112
config.noTimestamp Do not propagate the timestamp from the metrics API to prometheus false
config.delay Delay, in seconds, to fetch the metrics. By default set to 120, this, in order to avoid temporary data points 120
config.granularity Granularity for the metrics query, by default set to 1 minute PT1M
rules List of rules that need to be executed to fetch metrics

Rule configuration

Key Description
rules.clusters List of clusters to fetch metrics from
rules.labels Labels to exposed to Prometheus and group by in the query
rules.topics Optional list of topics to filter the metrics
rules.metrics List of metrics to gather

Examples of configuration files

  • A simple configuration to fetch metrics for a cluster: simple.yaml
  • A configuration to fetch metrics at the partition granularity for a few topics: partition.yaml

Default configuration

config:
  http:
    baseurl: https://api.telemetry.confluent.cloud/
    timeout: 60
  listener: 0.0.0.0:2112
  noTimestamp: false
  delay: 60
  granularity: PT1M
rules:
  - clusters:
      - $CCLOUD_CLUSTER
    metrics:
      - io.confluent.kafka.server/received_bytes
      - io.confluent.kafka.server/sent_bytes
      - io.confluent.kafka.server/received_records
      - io.confluent.kafka.server/sent_records
      - io.confluent.kafka.server/retained_bytes
      - io.confluent.kafka.server/active_connection_count
      - io.confluent.kafka.server/request_count
      - io.confluent.kafka.server/partition_count
    labels:
      - cluster_id
      - topic
      - type

Limits

In order to avoid reaching the limit of 1,000 points set by the Confluent Cloud Metrics API, the following soft limits has been established in the exporter:

  • In order to group by partition, you need to specify one or multiple topics
  • You cannot specify more than 100 topics in a single rule
  • clusters, labels and metrics are required in each rule

How to build

go get github.com/Dabz/ccloudexporter/cmd/ccloudexporter

Grafana

A Grafana dashboard is provided in ./grafana/ folder.

Grafana Screenshot