carterpeel/kvmtop-datasink

Datasink for kvmtop: logstash & influxdb

kvmtop-datasink

Datasink for kvmtop: kvmtop send monitoring data to logstash, which stores them into influxdb. A chronograf or grafana dashboard visualises the kvmtop data stored in influxdb.

                                      kvmtop-datasink
                  +-----------------------------------------------------+
                  |                                                     |
+------------     | +------------+     +------------+     +-----------+ |
|           |     | |            |     |            |     |           | |
|  kvmtop   +---> | |  logstash  +---> |  influxdb  +---> |  grafana  | |
|           |     | |            |     |            |     |           | |
+------------     | +------------+     +------------+     +-----------+ |
                  |                                                     |
                  +-----------------------------------------------------+

Deploy with Docker Compose

On a host wich Docker and Docker Compose, checkout this repository, open a terminal inside your git clone and then run

docker-compose up -d

Make sure to change the password for the influxdb in the docker-compose.yml file. If you do so, you need to change it in logstash/pipeline/kvmtop2influxdb.conf as well, and rebuild the logstash container image by yourself.

Then on a kvm enabled host, start kvmtop and send the output to your logstash instance, e.g.

kvmtop --cpu --printer=json --output=tcp --target=127.0.0.1:12345

Hint: Installation of kvmtop