Kafka output producer, send telegraf metrics to Kafka brokers

Closes #38

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ## v0.1.7 [unreleased]
 
 ### Features
+- [#38](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/38): Kafka output sink.
 - [#133](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/133): Add plugin.Gather error logging. Thanks @nickscript0!
 - [#136](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/136): Add a -usage flag for printing usage of a single plugin.
 - [#137](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/137): Memcached: fix when a value contains a space

README.md

@@ -103,21 +103,22 @@ at 192.168.59.103:8086, tagging measurements with dc="denver-1". It will output
 measurements at a 10s interval and will collect totalcpu & percpu data.
 
 ```
-[outputs]
-[outputs.influxdb]
-url = "http://192.168.59.103:8086" # required.
-database = "telegraf" # required.
-
 [tags]
-dc = "denver-1"
+    dc = "denver-1"
 
 [agent]
-interval = "10s"
+    interval = "10s"
+
+# OUTPUTS
+[outputs]
+[outputs.influxdb]
+    url = "http://192.168.59.103:8086" # required.
+    database = "telegraf" # required.
 
 # PLUGINS
 [cpu]
-percpu = true
-totalcpu = true
+    percpu = true
+    totalcpu = true
 ```
 
 Below is how to configure `tagpass` parameters (added in 0.1.4)
@@ -125,15 +126,15 @@ Below is how to configure `tagpass` parameters (added in 0.1.4)
 ```
 # Don't collect CPU data for cpu6 & cpu7
 [cpu.tagdrop]
-cpu = [ "cpu6", "cpu7" ]
+    cpu = [ "cpu6", "cpu7" ]
 
 [disk]
 [disk.tagpass]
-# tagpass conditions are OR, not AND.
-# If the (filesystem is ext4 or xfs) OR (the path is /opt or /home)
-# then the metric passes
-fstype = [ "ext4", "xfs" ]
-path = [ "/opt", "/home" ]
+    # tagpass conditions are OR, not AND.
+    # If the (filesystem is ext4 or xfs) OR (the path is /opt or /home)
+    # then the metric passes
+    fstype = [ "ext4", "xfs" ]
+    path = [ "/opt", "/home" ]
 ```
 
 ## Supported Plugins

agent.go

@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ func (a *Agent) Connect() error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
+		if a.Debug {
+			log.Printf("Successfully connected to output: %s\n", o.name)
+		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -160,6 +163,8 @@ func (a *Agent) LoadPlugins(pluginsFilter string) ([]string, error) {
 	return names, nil
 }
 
+// crankParallel runs the plugins that are using the same reporting interval
+// as the telegraf agent.
 func (a *Agent) crankParallel() error {
 	points := make(chan *BatchPoints, len(a.plugins))
 
@@ -203,6 +208,7 @@ func (a *Agent) crankParallel() error {
 	return a.flush(&bp)
 }
 
+// crank is mostly for test purposes.
 func (a *Agent) crank() error {
 	var bp BatchPoints
 
@@ -223,6 +229,8 @@ func (a *Agent) crank() error {
 	return a.flush(&bp)
 }
 
+// crankSeparate runs the plugins that have been configured with their own
+// reporting interval.
 func (a *Agent) crankSeparate(shutdown chan struct{}, plugin *runningPlugin) error {
 	ticker := time.NewTicker(plugin.config.Interval)
 

cmd/telegraf/telegraf.go

@@ -114,11 +114,8 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	shutdown := make(chan struct{})
-
 	signals := make(chan os.Signal)
-
 	signal.Notify(signals, os.Interrupt)
-
 	go func() {
 		<-signals
 		close(shutdown)

config.go

@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ var header = `# Telegraf configuration
 	# debug = false
 	# hostname = "prod3241"
 
+
 ###############################################################################
 #                                  OUTPUTS                                    #
 ###############################################################################
@@ -368,7 +369,6 @@ var header2 = `
 ###############################################################################
 #                                  PLUGINS                                    #
 ###############################################################################
-
 `
 
 // PrintSampleConfig prints the sample config!

outputs/all/all.go

@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ package all
 import (
 	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/outputs/datadog"
 	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/outputs/influxdb"
+	_ "github.com/influxdb/telegraf/outputs/kafka"
 )

outputs/datadog/datadog_test.go

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/testutil"
+
 	"github.com/influxdb/influxdb/client"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -25,18 +27,6 @@ func fakeDatadog() *Datadog {
 	return d
 }
 
-func testData() client.BatchPoints {
-	var bp client.BatchPoints
-	bp.Time = time.Now()
-	bp.Tags = map[string]string{"tag1": "value1"}
-	bp.Points = []client.Point{
-		{
-			Fields: map[string]interface{}{"value": 1.0},
-		},
-	}
-	return bp
-}
-
 func TestUriOverride(t *testing.T) {
 	ts := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
@@ -48,7 +38,7 @@ func TestUriOverride(t *testing.T) {
 	d.Apikey = "123456"
 	err := d.Connect()
 	require.NoError(t, err)
-	err = d.Write(testData())
+	err = d.Write(testutil.MockBatchPoints())
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 }
 
@@ -67,7 +57,7 @@ func TestBadStatusCode(t *testing.T) {
 	d.Apikey = "123456"
 	err := d.Connect()
 	require.NoError(t, err)
-	err = d.Write(testData())
+	err = d.Write(testutil.MockBatchPoints())
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("error expected but none returned")
 	} else {

outputs/kafka/kafka.go

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+package kafka
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/Shopify/sarama"
+	"github.com/influxdb/influxdb/client"
+	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/outputs"
+)
+
+type Kafka struct {
+	// Kafka brokers to send metrics to
+	Brokers []string
+	// Kafka topic
+	Topic string
+
+	producer sarama.SyncProducer
+}
+
+var sampleConfig = `
+    # URLs of kafka brokers
+    brokers = ["localhost:9092"]
+    # Kafka topic for producer messages
+    topic = "telegraf"
+`
+
+func (k *Kafka) Connect() error {
+	producer, err := sarama.NewSyncProducer(k.Brokers, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	k.producer = producer
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (k *Kafka) Close() error {
+	return k.producer.Close()
+}
+
+func (k *Kafka) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+func (k *Kafka) Description() string {
+	return "Configuration for the Kafka server to send metrics to"
+}
+
+func (k *Kafka) Write(bp client.BatchPoints) error {
+	if len(bp.Points) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	for _, p := range bp.Points {
+		// Combine tags from Point and BatchPoints and grab the resulting
+		// line-protocol output string to write to Kafka
+		var value string
+		if p.Raw != "" {
+			value = p.Raw
+		} else {
+			for k, v := range bp.Tags {
+				if p.Tags == nil {
+					p.Tags = make(map[string]string, len(bp.Tags))
+				}
+				p.Tags[k] = v
+			}
+			value = p.MarshalString()
+		}
+
+		m := &sarama.ProducerMessage{
+			Topic: k.Topic,
+			Value: sarama.StringEncoder(value),
+		}
+		if h, ok := p.Tags["host"]; ok {
+			m.Key = sarama.StringEncoder(h)
+		}
+
+		_, _, err := k.producer.SendMessage(m)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("FAILED to send kafka message: %s\n",
+				err))
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func init() {
+	outputs.Add("kafka", func() outputs.Output {
+		return &Kafka{}
+	})
+}

outputs/kafka/kafka_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package kafka
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestConnectAndWrite(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping integration test in short mode")
+	}
+
+	brokers := []string{testutil.GetLocalHost() + ":9092"}
+	k := &Kafka{
+		Brokers: brokers,
+		Topic:   "Test",
+	}
+
+	// Verify that we can connect to the Kafka broker
+	err := k.Connect()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Verify that we can successfully write data to the kafka broker
+	err = k.Write(testutil.MockBatchPoints())
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}

testutil/testutil.go

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import (
 	"net"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdb/influxdb/client"
 )
 
 var localhost = "localhost"
@@ -27,3 +30,17 @@ func GetLocalHost() string {
 	}
 	return localhost
 }
+
+// MockBatchPoints returns a mock BatchPoints object for using in unit tests
+// of telegraf output sinks.
+func MockBatchPoints() client.BatchPoints {
+	var bp client.BatchPoints
+	bp.Time = time.Now()
+	bp.Tags = map[string]string{"tag1": "value1"}
+	bp.Points = []client.Point{
+		{
+			Fields: map[string]interface{}{"value": 1.0},
+		},
+	}
+	return bp
+}