Graphite Telemetry

The Graphite telemetry adapter lets you push telemetry data over UDP to Meridian using the plaintext protocol.

To enable support for plaintext Graphite over UDP, edit $OPENNMS_HOME/etc/telemetryd-configuration.xml to set enabled=true for the Graphite protocol.

Enable Graphite protocol in telemetryd-configuration.xml

<listener name="Graphite-UDP-2003" class-name="org.opennms.netmgt.telemetry.listeners.UdpListener" enabled="true">
    <parameter key="port" value="2003"/>
    <parser name="Graphite-Parser" class-name="org.opennms.netmgt.telemetry.protocols.common.parser.ForwardParser" queue="Graphite" />
</listener>

<queue name="Graphite">
    <adapter name="Graphite" class-name="org.opennms.netmgt.telemetry.protocols.graphite.adapter.GraphiteAdapter" enabled="true">
        <parameter key="script" value="$OPENNMS_HOME/etc/telemetryd-adapters/graphite-telemetry-interface.groovy"/>
        <package name="Graphite-Default">
            <rrd step="300">
                <rra>RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:2016</rra>
                <rra>RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:12:1488</rra>
                <rra>RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:366</rra>
                <rra>RRA:MAX:0.5:288:366</rra>
                <rra>RRA:MIN:0.5:288:366</rra>
            </rrd>
        </package>
    </adapter>
</queue>

Apply the changes without restarting by sending a reloadDaemonConfig event in the CLI or the Web UI:

Send a reloadDaemonConfig event through CLI

$OPENNMS_HOME/bin/send-event.pl -p 'daemonName Telemetryd' uei.opennms.org/internal/reloadDaemonConfig

By default, this opens a UDP socket bound to 0.0.0.0:2003 to which Graphite messages can be forwarded.

Configure Graphite listener on a Minion

To enable and configure a UDP Listener for Graphite on Minion, connect to the Karaf Console and set the following properties:

$ ssh -p 8201 admin@localhost
...
admin@minion()> config:edit --alias udp-2003 --factory org.opennms.features.telemetry.listeners
admin@minion()> config:property-set name Graphite
admin@minion()> config:property-set class-name org.opennms.netmgt.telemetry.listeners.UdpListener
admin@minion()> config:property-set parameters.port 2003
admin@minion()> config:property-set parsers.0.name Graphite
admin@minion()> config:property-set parsers.0.class-name org.opennms.netmgt.telemetry.protocols.common.parser.ForwardParser
admin@minion()> config:update

The protocol must also be enabled on Meridian for the messages to be processed.

Graphite adapter

The Graphite adapter handles Graphite payloads. Messages are decoded and forwarded to a JSR-223-compatible script (for example, Beanshell or Groovy) for further processing. Using the script extension you can extract the desired metrics from the Graphite messages and persist the results as time series data.

Facts

Class Name

org.opennms.netmgt.telemetry.protocols.graphite.adapter.GraphiteAdapter

Configuration and use

Table 1. Required adapter-specific parameters for the GraphiteAdapter
Parameter	Description	Default
script	Full path to the script used to handle the Graphite messages.	none

Scripting

The script is invoked for every Graphite message that is received and successfully decoded.

The following globals will be passed to the script:

Table 2. Globals passed to the script
Parameter	Description	Type
agent	The agent (node) against which the metrics will be associated.	org.opennms.netmgt.collection.api.CollectionAgent
builder	Builder in which the resources and metrics should be added.	org.opennms.netmgt.collection.support.builder.CollectionSetBuilder
msg	Decoded message from which the metrics should be extracted.	org.opennms.netmgt.telemetry.protocols.graphite.adapter.GraphiteMetric