Ansible role: Telegraf

Install and configure Telegraf

Requirements

• Ansible >= 2.9
• Debian
  • Bookworm

Role variables

• telegraf_config - hash with the general configuration (see telegraf documentation)

  agent:
    interval: 10s
    round_interval: true
    metric_batch_size: 1000
    metric_buffer_limit: 10000
    collection_jitter: 0s
    flush_interval: 10s
    flush_jitter: 0s
    precision: ''
    hostname: ''
    omit_hostname: false

• telegraf_inputs - hash with inputs configuration

  cpu:
    percpu: true
    totalcpu: true
    collect_cpu_time: false
    report_active: false
  postgresql_extensible:
    address: "host=localhost"
    submodule:
      - name: query
        version = 901
        sqlquery = "SELECT pg_is_in_recovery()::INT"
        withdbname = false
        tagvalue = ""

• telegraf_outputs - hash with outputs configuration

  file:
    files: ['stdout', '/tmp/metrics.out']

• telegraf_user_groups - array with the telegraf unix groups

  - docker
  - admin

• telegraf_proxy_url - set a proxy url for http and https requests
• telegraf_proxy_ignore - array with ignore host or subnet

  - localhost
  - 10.0.0.0/8

How to use

- hosts: server
  roles:
    - telegraf

Development

Test with molecule and docker

• install docker
• install python3 and python3-pip
• install molecule and dependencies pip3 install molecule molecule-docker docker ansible-lint pytest-testinfra yamllint
• run molecule test

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Adrien Waksberg

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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