Metrics-curl.rb output not sent to influxdb?

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My check looks like this:

---
type: CheckConfig
api_version: core/v2
metadata:
  name: metrics
spec:
  command: "metrics-curl.rb -u https://thesite.com"
  proxy_entity_name: thesite.com
  round_robin: true
  publish: true
  interval: 30
  handlers:
  - plivo
  runtime_assets:
  - sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-http
  - sensu/sensu-ruby-runtime
  subscriptions:
  - proxy
  output_metric_format: nagios_perfdata
  output_metric_handlers:
  - influxdb

I see what appear to be metrics in the event list:

  thesite.com   thesite-metrics         dc2e6cb14e16.curl_timings.time_total 0.179716 1578949159                                                                                            0   false      2020-01-13 12:59:19 -0800 PST  
                                          dc2e6cb14e16.curl_timings.time_namelookup 0.008926 1578949159                                                                                                                                     
                                          dc2e6cb14e16.curl_timings.time_connect 0.019085 1578949159                                                                                                                                        
                                          dc2e6cb14e16.curl_timings.time_pretransfer 0.088613 1578949159                                                                                                                                    
                                          dc2e6cb14e16.curl_timings.time_redirect 0.000000 1578949159                                                                                                                                       
                                          dc2e6cb14e16.curl_timings.time_starttransfer 0.169122 1578949159                                                                                                                                  
                                          dc2e6cb14e16.curl_timings.http_code 200 1578949159

but no data in influxdb. i have other checks using sensu/monotoring-plugins that are able to output metrics to influx, so the handler seems to be working correctly. Why isn’t this working?

2

you have the metric format set wrong.
that looks like graphite_plaintext to me not nagios_perfdata

https://docs.sensu.io/sensu-go/latest/guides/extract-metrics-with-checks/#supported-output-metric-formats

3

lol. Was just going to post about that and/or delete the post. looks like it should be graphite_plaintext.

4

Hey I have one more question about the influxdb handler.

Is there a way to name the measurement that’s created? It seems to be a randomized string.

Since I’m running dockerized, my queries all break when I restart the db and it creates a new measurement name. I have to go in and update all the queries to use the new string. It would be cool if I could specify that… somewhere.

5

its actual the check that is naming the measurements. In in the case of that check… its using the hostname of the running agent by default.

The -s scheme option lets you replace the prefix with anything you want.

using that option and then using token substitution refering to Sensu Agent labels/annotations you can make a reusable check that uses the scheme from the agent config.