DEPRECATED: Please use https://github.com/librato/chef-librato instead.

Description

Chef cookbook that installs and configures the Librato Metrics Collectd Plugin.

Requirements

• collectd cookbook

Attributes

Required

• node[:collectd_librato][:version] - Version of Librato Collectd plugin to install. Tag must exist. (optional, defaults to latest)
• node[:collectd_librato][:email] - Librato Metrics Email
• node[:collectd_librato][:api_token] - Librato Metrics API Token

Optional

• node[:collectd_librato][:extra_config] - A hash of extra configuration settings to pass to the collectd-librato plugin. Keys/values must match the options described here.

Usage

After setting the above attributes (whether through chef-server or by just including them in your recipe), include the collectd recipe (see Requirements) and collectd-librato recipe to your recipe or runlist:

# recipe
include_recipe "collectd"
include_recipe "collectd-librato"
# runlist
recipe[collectd]
recipe[collectd-librato]

Verification

If everything went well, there should be a file at /etc/collectd/plugins/python.conf which configures the librato python plugin with your credentials.