collectd-write-qpid-json

A simple Collectd python plugin for writing metrics to an AMQP 1.0 compliant broker in the Collectd JSON format using Apache Qpid's Messaging Api python bindings.

But what about the supported AMQP plugin?

Collectd ships with an AMQP Plugin already. However it is based on the rabbitmq-c client library. RabbitMQ does not support the AMQP 1.0/0-10 versions of AMQP for whatever reason so I needed something else to talk to brokers that only support AMQP 1.0/0-10 such as the Apache QPID C++ broker.

How do I use it?

Configure your collectd.conf something similar to what is below:

<LoadPlugin python>
        Globals true
</LoadPlugin>
<Plugin python>
        ModulePath "/opt/collectd-write-qpid-json"
        Import write_qpid_json
        <Module write_qpid_json>
                TypesDB "/opt/collectd/share/collectd/types.db"
                TypesDB "/opt/collectd/etc/types.db"
                Exchange "collectd"
        </Module>
</Plugin>

Like many plugin's that use collectd's higher level language bindings, this plugin needs Collectd's type.db so that it can properly provide additional metadata about each collected value. I couldn't find a decent way to ask Collectd for this information so you will need to duplicate it here even though it is higher up in the config tree.

Support Options

Should I use this?

I don't know if you should use it? I'm using it. I'll be responsive if you have questions, fixes, bugs, if that helps. If you have any of those you can interact with me via Github or shoot me an email (craftsman@bendoerr.me).

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Ben Doerr

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