Questions tagged [scollector]
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Collect data for Bosun from multiple endpoints
In the observability system we're building from scratch, we'd like to have a single scollector to collect data from all the web servers and send it to Bosun, instead of having an instance of scollector on each server.
Do you know if there's a way to…

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Bosun HA and scalability
I have a minor bosun setup, and its collecting metrics from numerous services, and we are planning to scale these services on the cloud.
This will mean more data coming into bosun and hence, the load/efficiency/scale of bosun is affected.
I am…

sumitp
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BOSUN : How to get Tag_values for a specific Tag_key from BOSUN?
I have a BOSUN server running which is configured to operate on OPENTSDB. I am sending data to OPENTSDB using SCOLLECTOR every minute. What I am looking for is a way to get all possible Tag_Values for a given Tag_Key and Metric_Name which is present…

Mohd Waseem
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How to run External collector from Scollector?
I am trying to run external sample.py script in /path-to-scollector/collectors/0 folder from scollector.
scollector.toml:
Host = "localhost:0"
ColDir="//path-to-scollector//collectors//"
BatchSize=500
DisableSelf=true
command to run…

Mohd Waseem
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Bosun - Get IP address of host using .GetMeta
I am trying to create a (golang) struct for handling bosun alerts sent over http. It holds alert details, most importantly, about the eth0 IP address of the corresponding host.
/* This struct is defined as per the notification defined in bosun…

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Configuring scollector to get different frequences for different collectors
I'm working on scollector and I want to have specific frequencies for different collector.
For example:
get info from disk usage every 5 minutes
info from memory every minute
iostat every 30 seconds
and so on...
Here is a part of the conf.toml I…

Node One
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Using scollector with bosun and not OpenTSDB
I'm trying to run scollector on my windows server and send collected data into bosun server. I'm not running any OpenTSDB server, but I read in scollectors documentation that it can send metadata into OpenTSDB or bosun.
Unlike tcollector,…

Kamil Budziewski
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bosun scollector issue with string format output issue
I tried to config bosun scollector, I get snmpwalk works with integer format output, but when I try to get some output with cpu usage, it is string format when do the output.
example:
.1.3.6.1.4.1.2620.1.48.23.1.4.1.0 = INTEGER: 23 --- working…

jack
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scollector - tagging metrics from vsphere
just a question about scollector tagging. I have a config file that looks like this:
Host = "bosun01:80"
BatchSize = 5000
[Tags]
customer = "Admin"
environment = "bosun"
datacenter = "SITE1"
[[Vsphere]]
Host = "CUST2SITE1VC01.F.Q.D.N"
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Mark V
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scollector installation from source issue
I've been following this link to install scollector on an AWS ec2 instance running HBase. The link asks to run this command:
go get bosun.org/cmd/scollector to install from source. When I run it, I get the following output: Segmentation fault (core…

Nikhil Vandanapu
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Bosun: Hbase org.hbase.async.RemoteException
After running bosun with about 500 scollectors, I see various issues in the logs. This on is from the opentsdb stdout log.
org.hbase.async.RemoteException: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.RegionServerAbortedException: Server…

krish7919
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Not getting networking metrics from scollector on Centos 7.1
We have bosun running on Centos 6.4 and many nodes on that OS also. We added some Centos 7.1 nodes and while we get basic metrics like os.cpu, no network-related metrics appear.
I recompiled the latest scollector on 7.1 and pushed that out, but it…

ken
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scollector - send metadata for a node if bosun restarts
Alerts defined in bosun failed as the metadata was not populated when bosun restarts.
Is there a way to configure scollector to send metadata once the connection to bosun breaks?
I always need to restart bosun as I keep modifying the configuration…

krish7919
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