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Kube1984
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Vrops Telegraf Agent

Been searching all day for some documention on the telegraf agent.

I have it installed and running, but short of collecting some basic metrics, can i make it do anything more?

Like collect a different perf counter?

Monitor a service is running?

Ive add addional settings in the conf file, but it doesnt show up in the console.

Thanks for any input.

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RickVerstegen
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Which version of vROps are you running? 7.5 or 8.0?

In 8.0, if you want to Execute Script(s) and Get Top Process on virtual machines you only need Service Discovery. To monitor if a service is running you need to use script monitor. EPOPS agent can do this as well for you but the EPOPS agent will be deprecated in the next release.

For detailed information about Service Discovery and capabilities check Service Discovery

Telegraf agent is part of application monitoring, check Application Monitoring​ for usage and capabilities.

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Kube1984
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Im using vrops 8.0.

The telegraf ageny has a telegraf.conf file with basic os metrics, the inputs r based on the documented info from github project.

My main question is can i add other metrics to the conf file and have it report into vrops.

Vmware support seems to indicate yes, but thus far we havent gotten it to work.

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KabirAli82
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I haven't played with the telegraf conf file yet. But you could try to create a custom script monitor and have the output of the script send to vROPs.

Using Custom Script Monitor in vRealize Operations 8.0 - YouTube


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Kube1984
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Can one script output multiple metrics? From the video im gonna say no.

All im after really is more disk counters, as the telegraf ones r rather light.

On a bigger scale, if one can really use all the inputs peoole have written on github. That would make this a very powerfull tool. It feels a little blan right now

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KabirAli82
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The output must be a single integer value. For more values you need to set up more scripts. I've a Windows VM running 3 scripts to collect 3 types of specific data.


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Kube1984
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Can one script output multiple metrics? From the video im gonna say no.

All im after really is more disk counters, as the telegraf ones r rather light.

On a bigger scale, if one can really use all the inputs peoole have written on github. That would make this a very powerfull tool. It feels a little blan right now

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