/influxdb-2-dockercompose

Start InlfluxDB version 2 with the Flux language and scrape with Telegraf and view metrics

influxdb-2-dockercompose

🚀 Start InlfluxDB version 2 with the Flux language and scrape with Telegraf and view metrics 🚀

https://github.com/coding-to-music/influxdb-2-dockercompose

From / By https://github.com/devopsjourney1/influxdb-2-dockercompose

InfluxDB 2.0 - Complete Guide to Getting Started with InfluxDB 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gF-Jsk85bQ&ab_channel=DevOpsJourney

Environment variables:



user interfaces:



GitHub


git init
git add .
git remote remove origin
git commit -m "first commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin git@github.com:coding-to-music/influxdb-2-dockercompose.git
git push -u origin main


Install Pre-requirements


sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt install docker.io -y && apt install docker-compose -y



Bring Up Docker


# run and take over the terminal:
docker-compose up

# detached mode so will run even if you log out:
docker-compose up -d



Open port 8086 so you can view the InfluxDB UI



Use the userid/pwd you set in the docker-compose.yml


Go to Load Data-->Telegraf-->Create Configuration


Configure your API Token


export INFLUX_TOKEN=etc etc


Paste the token into the end of the file ~/.bash_aliases


Download the Telegraf CLI


https://www.influxdata.com/downloads/


docker pull telegraf


Or download binaries


Change the drop-down to Ubuntu & Debian


# influxdata-archive_compat.key GPG fingerprint:
#     9D53 9D90 D332 8DC7 D6C8 D3B9 D8FF 8E1F 7DF8 B07E
wget -q https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdata-archive_compat.key
echo '393e8779c89ac8d958f81f942f9ad7fb82a25e133faddaf92e15b16e6ac9ce4c influxdata-archive_compat.key' | sha256sum -c && cat influxdata-archive_compat.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdata-archive_compat.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/influxdata-archive_compat.gpg] https://repos.influxdata.com/debian stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdata.list

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install telegraf


Set up the Telegraf config for the System Monitoring of the VM


telegraf --config http://localhost:8086/api/v2/telegrafs/0c7e48639e4bf000


Useful docker commands


# view what is running
docker ps


Allow Telegraf to scrape the Docker Daemon


https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.29/plugins/inputs/docker/README.md


sudo usermod -aG docker telegraf


Troubleshoot Telegraf


Validate your Telegraf configuration with --test


Run a single telegraf collection, outputting metrics to stdout:


telegraf --config telegraf.conf --test


To run Telegraf via Docker


docker run -d --name telegraf --restart unless-stopped -v /path/to/telegraf.conf:/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf telegraf


To run Telegraf via docker-compose.yml


version: '3'
services:
  telegraf:
    image: telegraf
    container_name: telegraf
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /path/to/telegraf.conf:/etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf