Optionally send metrics to Carbon (Graphite)

[xbglowx]

It would be great if the tool could optionally send metrics to a carbon host.

[jedblack]

Any plans to have this implemented?

[xbglowx]

Hi @jedblack, I currently don't have any plans for this yet. The reason I came up with this enhancement was because I found myself writing wrapper scripts that would do the carbon submit.

I don't think it will take much time to implement. I am assuming you want this added to the 'stat' sub-command?

[jedblack]

yep, essentially, I would love to be able to pump any stat netscaler-tool can output into graphite(carbon)

[xbglowx]

Gotcha. I will try to make some time to work on this either this week or next. I will let you know when I have something, so that you can test it out.

[xbglowx]

I finally got around to coding this feature. I should have something ready by Monday.

[jedblack]

Wow, thanks Brian. Really appreciate you taking the time. It will be a super useful addition in my world, as I'm sure for many others as well.

[xbglowx]

@jedblack I have created a carbon branch. Can you please try it out?

1. create virtualenv
2. activate virtualenv
3. cd <git_clone_dir>
4. python setup.py install
5. modify '/etc/netscalertool.conf' and include the following at the end of the file:
   carbon:
   host: host.domain.com
   port: 2003
   metric_base: foo.bar
6. netscaler-tool --carbon <netscaler_ip> stat lb-vservers totalpktssent

In the above example, the tool will send foo.bar.<netscaler_ip>.lbvserver..totalpktssent. to host.domain.com:2003, for all lbvservers.

You can also try:

netscaler-tool --carbon <netscaler_ip> stat ns
netscaler-tool --carbon <netscaler_ip> show system

Watch /var/log/netscaler-tool/netscaler-tool.log for anything interesting and verify if metrics are making it to your carbon instance.

[jedblack]

I'm going to give it a run through the week and report back. Thanks Brian!