Motivation

The DalmatinerDB proxy runs as a service and is able to consume data from a variety of sources, and store this data in DalmatinerDB. This allows one to leverage existing monitoring infrastructure, while getting all of the performance and reliability benefits of DalmatinerDB as a storage backend.

The relationship of the proxy to the other components in the DalmatinerDB ecosystem is as follows:

Dalmatiner architecture

The proxy supports both pull-based and push-based approaches to collection. Several push-based protocols are supported:

• Graphite
• InfluxDB
• Metrics2.0
• OpenTSDB
• Prometheus

Alternatively, it is possible to configure pull-based collection from a Prometheus exported metrics URL. This URL will be scraped periodically by the proxy.

Docker

A motivational use case for the proxy is to use cAdvisor to measure the performance and resource usage of a docker container.

To get started, use the following shell command:

Shell

sudo docker run \
  --volume=/:/rootfs:ro \
  --volume=/var/run:/var/run:rw \
  --volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
  --volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro \
  --publish=8080:8080 \
  --detach=true \
  --name=cadvisor \
  google/cadvisor:latest \
  -storage_driver=influxdb \
  -storage_driver_host=ddb_proxy_ip:8086

The metrics gathered from the running container by cAdviser will be pushed to the proxy in the InfluxDB line protocol over HTTP.

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Proxy IP

Care should be taken to configure the correct IP address for the proxy when starting the docker container.