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Snap collector plugin - Apache

This plugin collects metrics from the Apache Webserver for mod_status: http://your.server.name/server-status?auto. ?auto is the machine-readable format for the status file.

It's used in the Snap framework.

1. Getting Started

• Installation
• Configuration and Usage

2. Documentation

• Collected Metrics
• Examples

3. Community Support
4. Contributing
5. License
6. Acknowledgements

Getting Started

In order to use this plugin you need Apache2 installed.

Operating systems

• Linux/amd64

Installation

Apache

sudo apt-get install apache2

Snap

You can get the pre-built binaries for your OS and architecture at Snap's GitHub Releases page.

To build the plugin binary:

Fork https://github.com/intelsdi-x/snap-plugin-collector-apache Clone repo into $GOPATH/src/github.com/intelsdi-x/:

$ git clone https://github.com/<yourGithubID>/snap-plugin-collector-apache.git

Build the plugin by running make within the cloned repo:

$ make

(It may take a while to pull dependencies if you don't have them already.)

This builds the plugin in /build/${GOOS}/${GOARCH}

Run tests

export TEST_TYPE=small
make test

Configuration and Usage

Apache

The Apache mod_status documentation says to enable mod_status in httpd.conf, but it was located in mods-enabled/status.conf for me:

$ ls /etc/apache2/
apache2.conf  conf-available  conf-enabled  envvars  magic  mods-available  mods-enabled  ports.conf  sites-available  sites-enabled

Make sure mod_status is enabled with the following uncommented. Extended status needs to be on. If you want the mod status url to be mod_status instead of server-status just change the location line and the apache_suffix in the config.json file to match.

ExtendedStatus on
<Location /mod_status>
  SetHandler server-status
</Location>

If no changes needed to be made, run the following to start apache.

$ sudo service apache2 start

If any changes needed to be made, run the following to restart apache after you save the file.

$ sudo service apache2 restart

If it doesn't seem like anything changed when you start up the server, it likely means that you had other Apache instances running.
You can stop Apache2 and then if there are any Apache processes running, kill them, and start Apache:

$ sudo service apache2 stop
$ ps aux | grep apache
$ kill -9 <PIDs>
$ sudo service apache2 start

Check to see if Apache2 is running:

$ service apache2 status
 * apache2 is running

Snap

• Set up the Snap framework

Documentation

There are a number of other resources you can review to learn to use this plugin:

• Apache mod_status documentation
• Snap Apache examples
• Snap Apache JSON task example

Collected Metrics

All metrics gathered by this plugin are exposed by the status file produced by mod_status.
This plugin has the ability to gather the following metrics: Available Metrics

This plugin will provide two seperate metric catalogs based on whether safe or unsafe collection is configured.

Examples

If this is your directory structure:

$GOPATH/src/github.com/intelsdi-x/snap/
$GOPATH/src/github.com/intelsdi-x/snap-plugin-collector-apache/

In one terminal window in the /snap directory: Running snapteld with auto discovery, log level 1, and trust disabled. The config.json file has the webserver configuration parameters.

$ snapteld -l 1 -t 0

Download desired publisher plugin eg.

$ wget http://snap.ci.snap-telemetry.io/plugins/snap-plugin-publisher-file/latest/linux/x86_64/snap-plugin-publisher-file

Load collector and publisher

$ snaptel plugin load snap-plugin-collector-apache
$ snaptel plugin load snap-plugin-publisher-file

Create task manifest for writing to a file. See ../snap-plugin-collector-apache/examples/tasks/apache-file.json:

{
  "version": 1,
  "schedule": {
      "type": "simple",
      "interval": "1s"
  },
  "workflow": {
      "collect": {
          "metrics": {
              "/intel/apache/CPULoad": {},
              "/intel/apache/BytesPerSec": {},
              "/intel/apache/workers/Sending": {}
          },
          "config": {
            "/intel/apache": {
              "apache_mod_status_url": "https://www.apache.org/server-status?auto"
            }
          },
          "publish": [
              {
                  "plugin_name": "file",
                  "config": {
                      "file": "/tmp/snap-apache-file.log"
                  }
              }
          ]
      }
  }
}

Another terminal window, also in /snap:

$ snaptel task create -t ../snap-plugin-collector-apache/examples/tasks/apache-file.json

/tmp/snap-apache-file.log

2016-01-27 15:08:51.09527825 -0800 PST|[intel apache BytesPerSec]|92.0861|127.0.0.1:80
2016-01-27 15:08:51.09527251 -0800 PST|[intel apache CPULoad]|.0209417|127.0.0.1:80
2016-01-27 15:08:51.095292429 -0800 PST|[intel apache workers Sending]|1|127.0.0.1:80
2016-01-27 15:08:52.096059795 -0800 PST|[intel apache BytesPerSec]|92.086|127.0.0.1:80
2016-01-27 15:08:52.096056768 -0800 PST|[intel apache CPULoad]|.0209417|127.0.0.1:80
2016-01-27 15:08:52.096089108 -0800 PST|[intel apache workers Sending]|1|127.0.0.1:80

Unsafe collection

Not all version of the apache status endpoint return the same metrics. To allow for consistent collections from different apache servers safe collection is enabled for the plugin by default. To override safe collection and expose all the available metrics alter the snapteld global configuration to include the following:

control:
    plugins:
      collector:
        apache:
          all:
            safe: false

The provided example config can be used to load this plugin in unsafe mode

Roadmap

The next step for this plugin is to make sure it works with Lightppd and it is in active development. As we launch this plugin, we do not have any outstanding requirements for the next release. If you have a feature request, please add it as an issue and/or submit a pull request.

Community Support

This repository is one of many plugins in the Snap framework: a powerful telemetry framework. See the full project at http://github.com/intelsdi-x/snap To reach out to other users, head to the main framework

Contributing

We love contributions!

There's more than one way to give back, from examples to blogs to code updates. See our recommended process in CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Snap, along with this plugin, is an Open Source software released under the Apache 2.0 License.

Acknowledgements

• Author: Tiffany Jernigan
• Author: Dan Pittman

Thank you! Your contribution is incredibly important to us.