A HTTP based harness for Telegraf monitoring system. It has an embedded executable version of Telegraf. Now you can simply start and stop your Telegraf remotely and gathering your system metrics and send them to your Influxdb instant.
In windows, download the latest binary package from release section (or clone the project and build it with go build ), unzip it and then run the executable telegraf-harness.exe. Now the harness listens to port 6663 for your http commands.
To test it works properly, use http request /test; this command run the Telegraf with --test arguments and responds the result which contains cpu, memory, disk and network metrics:
curl http://your-telegraf-harness:6663/test
To start the Telegraf, just send the following http request (using curl or just enter the request in your browser):
curl http://your-telegraf-harness:6663/start?interval=5s&database=myDataBaseName&url=http://my-influxdb-server-address:8086
To stop the telegraf just send the following request to our harness:
curl http://your-telegraf-harness:6663/stop
Currently the default configuration file monitor cpu, memory, disk and network for windows machine using windows_performance_counters objects:
[[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
# Processor usage, alternative to native, reports on a per core.
ObjectName = "Processor"
Instances = ["*"]
Counters = ["% Idle Time", "% Interrupt Time", "% Privileged Time", "% User Time", "% Processor Time"]
Measurement = "win_cpu"
IncludeTotal=true
[[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
# Disk times and queues
ObjectName = "LogicalDisk"
Instances = ["*"]
Counters = ["% Idle Time", "% Disk Time","% Disk Read Time", "% Disk Write Time", "% User Time", "Current Disk Queue Length"]
Measurement = "win_disk"
#IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
[[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
ObjectName = "System"
Counters = ["Context Switches/sec","System Calls/sec", "Processor Queue Length"]
Instances = ["------"]
Measurement = "win_system"
#IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
[[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
# Example query where the Instance portion must be removed to get data back, such as from the Memory object.
ObjectName = "Memory"
Counters = ["Available Bytes","Cache Faults/sec","Demand Zero Faults/sec","Page Faults/sec","Pages/sec","Transition Faults/sec","Pool Nonpaged Bytes","Pool Paged Bytes"]
Instances = ["------"] # Use 6 x - to remove the Instance bit from the query.
Measurement = "win_mem"
#IncludeTotal=false #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).
[[inputs.win_perf_counters.object]]
# more counters for the Network Interface Object can be found at
# https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms803962.aspx
ObjectName = "Network Interface"
Counters = ["Bytes Received/sec","Bytes Sent/sec","Packets Received/sec","Packets Sent/sec"]
Instances = ["*"] # Use 6 x - to remove the Instance bit from the query.
Measurement = "win_net"
IncludeTotal=true #Set to true to include _Total instance when querying for all (*).