TICK Stack Dashboard

Building a dashboard using the TICK Stack

• Telegraf
• InfluxDB
• Chronograf
• Kapacitor

Arch:

Getting Started :

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Default Ports:

• Telegraf does not expose ports by default. It will not expose ports unless you have a service plugin enabled
• InfluxDB :8086
• Chronograf :8888
• Kapacitor :9092

Telegraf can also collect metrics via the following service plugins:

CPU, DISk, MEM (Default Example)
http_listener
kafka_consumer
mqtt_consumer
nats_consumer
nsq_consumer
logparser
statsd
socket_listener
tail
tcp_listener
udp_listener
webhooks
- filestack
- github
- mandrill
- rollbar

Docker Images:

• Telegraf docker pull telegraf
• InfluxDB docker pull influxdb
• Chronograf docker pull quay.io/influxdb/chronograf:1.8.6
• Kapacitor docker pull kapacitor

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Using Docker :

easaier setup than downloading

# Make sure Docker installed 
cd Docker
docker-compose build # First time only, it will pull the images and build the containers from the images.
docker-compose up #if not built, it will auto-build first then run the containers.

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Downloading :

Download Telegraf v1.15.2:

Mac (Homebrew):

brew update
brew install telegraf

Ubuntu :

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf_1.15.3-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i telegraf_1.15.3-1_amd64.deb

Windows 64:

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.15.3_windows_amd64.zip
unzip telegraf-1.15.3_windows_amd64.zip

Linux Binaries 64

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.15.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz
tar xf telegraf-1.15.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz

before starting telegraf on windows add to the system variables where telegraf is installes, then start Telegraf :

telegraf

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Download InfluxDB v1.8.2:

Mac (Homebrew):

brew update
brew install influxdb

Mac OS X:

https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb-1.8.2_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
tar zxvf influxdb-1.8.2_darwin_amd64.tar.gz

Ubuntu :

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb_1.8.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i influxdb_1.8.2_amd64.deb

Windows 64:

https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb-1.8.2_windows_amd64.zip
unzip influxdb-1.8.2_windows_amd64.zip

Linux Binaries 64

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/influxdb/releases/influxdb-1.8.2_linux_amd64.tar.gz
tar xvfz influxdb-1.8.2_linux_amd64.tar.gz

before starting InfluxDB on windows add to the system variables where InfluxDB is installes, then start InfluxDB :

influxd #will start the service for influx

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Download Chronograf v1.8.6:

Mac (Homebrew):

brew update
brew install chronograf

Mac OS X:

https://dl.influxdata.com/chronograf/releases/chronograf-1.8.6_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
tar zxvf chronograf-1.8.6_darwin_amd64.tar.gz

Ubuntu :

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/chronograf/releases/chronograf_1.8.6_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i chronograf_1.8.6_amd64.deb

Windows 64:

https://dl.influxdata.com/chronograf/releases/chronograf-1.8.6_windows_amd64.zip
unzip chronograf-1.8.6_windows_amd64.zip

Linux Binaries 64

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/chronograf/releases/chronograf-1.8.6_linux_amd64.tar.gz
tar xvfz chronograf-1.8.6_linux_amd64.tar.gz

before starting Chronograf on windows add to the system variables where Chronograf is installes, then start Chronograf :

chronograf 

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Download Kapacitor v1.5.6:

Mac (Homebrew):

brew update
brew install kapacitor

Ubuntu :

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/kapacitor/releases/kapacitor_1.5.6-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i kapacitor_1.5.6-1_amd64.deb

Windows 64:

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/kapacitor/releases/kapacitor-1.5.6_windows_amd64.zip -UseBasicParsing -OutFile kapacitor-1.5.6_windows_amd64.zip
Expand-Archive  .\kapacitor-1.5.6_windows_amd64.zip -DestinationPath 'C:\Program Files\kapacitor\'

Linux Binaries 64

https://dl.influxdata.com/kapacitor/releases/kapacitor-1.5.6_windows_amd64.zip

before starting Kapacitor on windows add to the system variables where Kapacitor is installes, then start Kapacitor :

Kapacitord # will start the Kapacitor Service 

To Start :

if setup, and PATH configured, in seperate terminals run the commands

influxd
# then
telegraf
# then 
influx
# then 
Chronograf
# then 
Kapacitord

in the influxterminal, run SHOW DATABASES, USE telegraf, SHOW MEASUREMENTS, SHOW QUERIES, SHOW SHARDS

• Example :

SHOW FIELD KEYS :

name: win_cpu
fieldKey                fieldType
--------                ---------
Percent_DPC_Time        float
Percent_Idle_Time       float
Percent_Interrupt_Time  float
Percent_Privileged_Time float
Percent_Processor_Time  float
Percent_User_Time       float

name: win_disk
fieldKey                  fieldType
--------                  ---------
Current_Disk_Queue_Length float
Free_Megabytes            float
Percent_Disk_Read_Time    float
Percent_Disk_Time         float
Percent_Disk_Write_Time   float
Percent_Free_Space        float
Percent_Idle_Time         float

name: win_diskio
fieldKey                  fieldType
--------                  ---------
Current_Disk_Queue_Length float
Disk_Read_Bytes_persec    float
Disk_Reads_persec         float
Disk_Write_Bytes_persec   float
Disk_Writes_persec        float
Percent_Disk_Read_Time    float
Percent_Disk_Time         float
Percent_Disk_Write_Time   float

name: win_mem
fieldKey                            fieldType
--------                            ---------
Available_Bytes                     float
Cache_Faults_persec                 float
Demand_Zero_Faults_persec           float
Page_Faults_persec                  float
Pages_persec                        float
Pool_Nonpaged_Bytes                 float
Pool_Paged_Bytes                    float
Standby_Cache_Core_Bytes            float
Standby_Cache_Normal_Priority_Bytes float
Standby_Cache_Reserve_Bytes         float
Transition_Faults_persec            float

name: win_net
fieldKey                   fieldType
--------                   ---------
Bytes_Received_persec      float
Bytes_Sent_persec          float
Packets_Outbound_Discarded float
Packets_Outbound_Errors    float
Packets_Received_Discarded float
Packets_Received_Errors    float
Packets_Received_persec    float
Packets_Sent_persec        float

name: win_swap
fieldKey      fieldType
--------      ---------
Percent_Usage float

name: win_system
fieldKey                fieldType
--------                ---------
Context_Switches_persec float
Processor_Queue_Length  float
System_Calls_persec     float
System_Up_Time          float

Query :

SELECT Percent_Idle_Time FROM win_cpu LIMIT 10

SELECT Available_Bytes  FROM win_mem LIMIT 10

>  SELECT Percent_Idle_Time FROM win_cpu LIMIT 10
name: win_cpu
time                Percent_Idle_Time
----                -----------------
1599997804000000000 88.06343078613281
1599997804000000000 89.12462615966797
1599997804000000000 88.06210327148438
1599997804000000000 91.40750885009766
1599997804000000000 88.96546173095703
1599997810000000000 88.12652587890625
1599997810000000000 84.52249145507812
1599997810000000000 85.84213256835938
1599997810000000000 84.53411865234375
1599997810000000000 86.1854019165039
> SELECT Available_Bytes  FROM win_mem LIMIT 10
name: win_mem
time                Available_Bytes
----                ---------------
1599997804000000000 412909568
1599997810000000000 376549376
1599997820000000000 365977600
1599997830000000000 337690624
1599997841000000000 653959168
1599997850000000000 653037568
1599997860000000000 595034112
1599997870000000000 590839808
1599997880000000000 596590592
1599997890000000000 568860672

SELECT mean("Available_Bytes") AS "available_bytes" FROM "telegraf"."autogen"."win_mem" WHERE time > 1599997804000000000

• to view the dashboards :

in the browser visit localhost:8888

username:user, password:pass

TO DO

• will try different data sources NATs, Kafka, StatsD, SalesForce, Webhooks, OpenSMTPD, Kibana ...etc, Check more input plugins for Telegraf
• Build different Dashboards for Different sources, Check other pre-built dashboards
• and different DataViz types
• will add a clustered Kapacitor and InfluxDB using Docker Swarm in ./Docker/Cluster
• will add a clustered Kapacitor and InfluxDB using Kubernetes in ./Docker/Kubernetes
• will try and add Garafana and Prometheus
• will try and Build a Vue app to show the Dashboard elements

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