InfluxDB ingestion support

Gnocchi implements some part of the InfluxDB REST API. That allows tool that are used to write to InfluxDB to write directly to Gnocchi instead, such as Telegraf.

The endpoint is available at /v1/influxdb. It supports:

  • GET /v1/influxdb/ping

  • POST /v1/influxdb/query where the only query that is handled is CREATE DATABASE <db>. That will create a new resource type named after the database handle.

  • POST /v1/influxdb/write?db=<db>. The db parameter should be an existing resource type that does not require any attributes to be set. The body should follow the InfluxDB line protocol.

In order to map InfluxDB data to Gnocchi data model, the following transformation happen when writing metrics:

  • For each measure sent, one of the tag value is used as the original resource id. By default the host tag is used. This can be overriden by passing the X-Gnocchi-InfluxDB-Tag-Resource-ID HTTP header.

  • The metric names associated to the resource have the format: <measurement>.<field_key>[@<tag_key>=<tag_value>,…]. The tag are sorted by keys.

Telegraf configuration

In order to use Telegraf with Gnocchi, you can use the following configuration example:

[[outputs.influxdb]]
  urls = ["http://admin:localhost:8041/v1/influxdb"]
  http_headers = {"X-Gnocchi-InfluxDB-Tag-Resource-ID" = "host"}

Gnocchi configuration

The default Gnocchi API server does not support the chunked encoding required by the InfluxDB compatible endpoint. To enable chunked encoding, you must put a real HTTP Server (Apache/NGINX/…) on front of Gnocchi API, and set [api]/uwsgi_mode = http-socket.