customTheme: "orange" title: Supervsion Atom based on TICK (Telegraf, Influxdb, Chronograf and Kapacitor) type: article

Supervison ATOM based on TICK (Telegraf, Influxdb, Chronograf and Kapacitor)

1. Supervision

This atom purpose is to quickly setup an Ubuntu box with TICK (Telegraf, Influxdb, chronograf and Kapacitor) and Grafana installed. It gives the opportunity to easily prototype ideas.

The provisonning steps include creating an InfluxDB database and procision telegraf plugin via playbook ansible.

For more information about the TICK architecture, click here

2. Install

2.1. Prerequisites

  • Vagrant
  • VirtualBox
  • Ansible

2.2. Usage

  1. Download or clone this repository

  2. change the variables in the following yaml files according to your needs

  3. The config.yml file contains the general configuration of cloud credentials: 

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openstack_auth_url: <URL_KEYSTONE_OPENSTACK>
username: <userid>
tenant_name: <tenant_id>
key_file: <keyfile>
key_name: <keyname>
login: <login>
  • The node.yml files contains the list of components description. A model component model is defined as following :
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---
- name: supervision
  service_name: supervision
  box: ubuntu/xenial64
  mem: 512
  cpus: 1
  OS_FLOATING_IP_POOL: <neutron_floating_ip_pool>
  OS_FLAVOR : m1.small
  OS_IMAGE : xenial
  OS_NETWORKS : 
    - <private management network>
  nics:  #Internal only interfaces
    - ip:
      network_name: MGNT
      auto_config:  "True"
      method: dhcp
      type: private_network
  1. Launch the VM build with the command vagrant up --provider=openstack
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> vagrant up vagrant up --provider=openstack
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  1. Check that everything goes well by connecting to the Grafana web interface at the url http://<floattinip>:3000 and providing the user admin with the password admin

3. Author

4. License

  • Licensed under Apache License Version 2.0.