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* Add sink directly using libganglia.so * Remove unneeded confuse header * add submodule init to build action * add submodule init to runonce action * add installation og ganglia to runonce * add installation of ganglia to runonce * add installation of ganglia to runonce * libconfuse not required * Remove ganglia submodule * Remove ganglia.h * Add Makefile to help creating the libganglia.so link * Fix cgo header * Rename new Ganglia sink to 'libgangliaSink' * Add documentation for libgangliaSink * Extend make buildsystem with find&symlink helper for libgangliaSink * Add metric renaming function * Add build tag 'ganglia' and create corresponding files
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## `libganglia` sink
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The `libganglia` sink interacts directly with the library of the [Ganglia Monitoring System](http://ganglia.info/) to submit the metrics. Consequently, it needs to be installed on all nodes. But this is commonly the case if you want to use Ganglia, because it requires at least a node daemon (`gmond` or `ganglia-monitor`) to work.
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The `libganglia` sink has probably less overhead compared to the `ganglia` sink because it does not require any process generation but initializes the environment and UDP connections only once.
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### Configuration structure
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```json
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{
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"<name>": {
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"type": "libganglia",
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"gmetric_config" : "/path/to/gmetric/config",
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"cluster_name": "MyCluster",
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"add_ganglia_group" : true,
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"add_type_to_name": true,
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"add_units" : true
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}
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}
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```
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- `type`: makes the sink an `libganglia` sink
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- `meta_as_tags`: print all meta information as tags in the output (optional)
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- `gmond_config`: Path to the Ganglia configuration file `gmond.conf` (default: `/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf`)
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- `cluster_name`: Set a cluster name for the metric. If not set, it is taken from `gmond_config`
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- `add_ganglia_group`: Add a Ganglia metric group based on meta information. Some old versions of `gmetric` do not support the `--group` option
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- `add_type_to_name`: Ganglia commonly uses only node-level metrics but with cc-metric-collector, there are metrics for cpus, memory domains, CPU sockets and the whole node. In order to get eeng, this option prefixes the metric name with `<type><type-id>_` or `device_` depending on the metric tags and meta information. For metrics of the whole node `type=node`, no prefix is added
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- `add_units`: Add metric value unit if there is a `unit` entry in the metric tags or meta information
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### Ganglia Installation
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My development system is Ubuntu 20.04. To install the required libraries with `apt`:
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```
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$ sudo apt install libganglia1
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```
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The `libganglia.so` gets installed in `/usr/lib`. The Ganglia headers `libganglia1-dev` are **not** required.
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I added a `Makefile` in the `sinks` subfolder that searches for the library in `/usr` and creates a symlink (`sinks/libganglia.so`) for running/building the cc-metric-collector. So just type `make` before running/building in the main folder or the `sinks` subfolder. |