Fluent::Plugin::InfluxDB, a plugin for Fluentd

fluent-plugin-influxdb is a buffered output plugin for fluentd and influxDB.

If you are using fluentd as a collector and want to organize your time-series data in influxDB, this is your right choice!

Installation

$ fluent-gem install fluent-plugin-influxdb

Usage

Just like other regular output plugins, Use type influxdb in your fluentd configuration under match scope:

type influxdb

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Options:

host: The IP or domain of influxDB, default to "localhost"

port: The HTTP port of influxDB, default to 8086

dbname: The database name of influxDB, default to "fluentd". you should create the database and grant permissions first

user: The DB user of influxDB, should be created manually, default to "root"

password: The password of the user, default to "root"

time_precision: The time precision of timestamp. default to "s". should specify either second (s), millisecond (m), or microsecond (u)

Configuration Example

<match mylog.*>
  type influxdb
  host  localhost
  port  8086
  dbname test
  user  testuser
  password  mypwd
  time_precision s
</match>

Cache and multiprocess

fluentd-plugin-influxdb is a buffered output plugin. So additional buffer configuration would be (with default values):

buffer_type memory
flush_interval 60
retry_limit 17
retry_wait 1.0
num_threads 1

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Also please consider using fluent-plugin-multiprocess to fork multiple threads for your metrics:

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Licence

This package was distributed under MIT licence, see LICENCE file for details.

This plugin was written by Fang.Li and was inspired by Uken's elasticsearch plugin.