Config snippets for collectd configured by TripleO

by mrunge
in OpenStack

tagged OpenStack, collectd

This is mostly a brain dump for myself for later reference, but may be also useful for others.

As I wrote in an earlier post, collectd is configured on OpenStack TripleO driven deployments by a config file.

parameter_defaults:
    CollectdExtraPlugins:
        - write_http
    ExtraConfig:
        collectd::plugin::write_http::nodes:
            collectd:
                url: collectd1.tld.org
                metrics: true
                header: foobar

The collectd exec plugin comes handy when launching some third party script. However, the config may be a bit tricky, for example to execute /usr/bin/true one would insert

parameter_defaults:
    CollectdExtraPlugins:
     - exec
    ExtraConfig:
      collectd::plugin::exec::commands:
        healthcheck:
          user: "collectd"
          group: "collectd"
          exec: ["/usr/bin/true",]