Telegraf - influxDB - Grafana using Docker

In this project we will use docker and docker-compose which will help us to orchestrate all the necessary images.

We will use the official Docker images for different process

• Grafana.
• telegraf.
• influxdb.

Getting Started

Instructions will cover usage information.

Prerequisities

In order to run this container you'll need to install docker based on your OS.

• Windows
• MacOS
• Linux

Configuration files

telegraf.conf

In this file we are gping to connect to a database. This database is going to persist the information of the connections and multiple process generated.

[[inputs.exec]]
commands=[“iperf3 -c 192.168.0.59 –json”]
interval = “2m”
timeout = “240s”
data_format = “json”
json_query = “end”
name_override = “IMSI=”

##############################################################################
# OUTPUT PLUGINS #
###############################################################################
# Configuration for sending metrics to InfluxDB
[[outputs.influxdb]]
 ## The full HTTP or UDP URL for your InfluxDB instance.
  urls = [“http://127.0.0.1:8086”]

 ## The target database for metrics; will be created as needed.
 ## For UDP url endpoint database needs to be configured on server side.
  database = “iperf”

 ## HTTP Basic Auth
  username = “<username>”
  password = “password” 

Usage

Execute in your CLI

 git clone [email protected]:Jorge-DevOps/Docker-con-Telegraf-InfluxDB-Grafana.git with git Bash

Here you will find several files necessary for the deployment of the project, the file that interests us in this section is docker-compose.yaml.

This file contains the confdigurations of the official Docker images.

cd Docker-con-Telegraf-InfluxDB-Grafana

To download the images and execute the containers we can do it in different ways, in my case I will use docker-compose.

docker-compose up -d

You should get the following output:

At this point we already has Grafana, Telegraf and influxdb contenders on top, so, you already have access to grafana via localhost on port :3000.

• http://127.0.0.1:3000/

• You can also check the status of the containers with the command docker ps