InfluxDB

Auto-Detection

Health Check

Prometheus Metrics

Bleemeo monitors InfluxDB through automatic service detection with HTTP health checks, and for version 2.x, through its native Prometheus metrics endpoint.

Auto-Detection

Glouton automatically detects InfluxDB instances running on the system.

If auto-detected parameters are incorrect, you can override them manually.

Linux

sudo tee /etc/glouton/conf.d/99-influxdb.conf > /dev/null << 'EOF'
service:
  - type: "influxdb"
    address: "127.0.0.1"
    port: 8086
EOF

Windows

Create or edit the file C:\ProgramData\glouton\conf.d\99-influxdb.conf:

service:
  - type: "influxdb"
    address: "127.0.0.1"
    port: 8086

Glouton automatically detects configuration changes.

Health Check

Glouton performs an HTTP health check when InfluxDB listens on port 8086.

Metric	Description
service_status	Status of InfluxDB

Prometheus Metrics

InfluxDB 2.x exposes a native Prometheus metrics endpoint by default on its main HTTP port. No additional InfluxDB configuration is required.

You can verify the endpoint is working by visiting http://localhost:8086/metrics. For more details, see the InfluxDB metrics documentation.

Glouton Configuration

Linux

sudo tee /etc/glouton/conf.d/99-influxdb.conf > /dev/null << 'EOF'
metric:
  prometheus:
    targets:
      - url: "http://localhost:8086/metrics"
        name: "influxdb"
        allow_metrics:
          - "http_api_requests_total"
          - "http_api_request_duration_seconds"
          - "boltdb_reads_total"
          - "go_memstats_alloc_bytes"
          - "influxdb_organizations_total"
          - "task_scheduler_total_runs_active"
EOF

Windows

Create or edit the file C:\ProgramData\glouton\conf.d\99-influxdb.conf:

metric:
  prometheus:
    targets:
      - url: "http://localhost:8086/metrics"
        name: "influxdb"
        allow_metrics:
          - "http_api_requests_total"
          - "http_api_request_duration_seconds"
          - "boltdb_reads_total"
          - "go_memstats_alloc_bytes"
          - "influxdb_organizations_total"
          - "task_scheduler_total_runs_active"

Glouton automatically detects configuration changes.

Customize collected metrics

The metrics below are our recommended defaults. You can adjust the allow_metrics list to include any metric from InfluxDB’s metrics documentation, or use deny_metrics to exclude specific ones. See Metrics Filtering for details.

Metric	Description
http_api_requests_total	Total number of HTTP API requests by endpoint and status
http_api_request_duration_seconds	Duration of HTTP API requests in seconds
boltdb_reads_total	Total number of BoltDB read operations
go_memstats_alloc_bytes	Number of bytes allocated and still in use by the Go runtime
influxdb_organizations_total	Total number of organizations in the InfluxDB instance
task_scheduler_total_runs_active	Number of currently active task scheduler runs