cc-metric-collector/sinks/influxSink.md
Thomas Gruber d1e66201a6
Add non-blocking InfluxDB sink (#29)
* Add non-blocking InfluxDB sink

* Add configurable batch size
2022-02-07 16:51:46 +01:00

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influxdb sink

The influxdb sink uses the official InfluxDB golang client to write the metrics to an InfluxDB database in a blocking fashion. It provides only support for V2 write endpoints (InfluxDB 1.8.0 or later).

Configuration structure

{
  "<name>": {
    "type": "influxdb",
    "meta_as_tags" : true,
    "database" : "mymetrics",
    "host": "dbhost.example.com",
    "port": "4222",
    "user": "exampleuser",
    "password" : "examplepw",
    "organization": "myorg",
    "ssl": true,
  }
}
  • type: makes the sink an influxdb sink
  • meta_as_tags: print all meta information as tags in the output (optional)
  • database: All metrics are written to this bucket
  • host: Hostname of the InfluxDB database server
  • port: Portnumber (as string) of the InfluxDB database server
  • user: Username for basic authentification
  • password: Password for basic authentification
  • organization: Organization in the InfluxDB
  • ssl: Use SSL connection