Bosh HM Forwarder Release

Bosh HM Forwarder is a companion job to metron_agent that sends bosh health metrics through loggregator.

Usage

bosh_hm_forwarder is to be colocated with a metron_agent. It reads metrics from the host VM and forwards them (via UDP) to the metron_agent.

Deployment

Changes to Bosh Deployment

These instructions are colocating the job with metron_agent.

1. Add the release to your deployment manifest.

   releases:
   +  - name: bosh-hm-forwarder
   +    version: latest
      - name: loggregator
        version: latest

   Then bosh upload release the latest bosh-hm-forwarder-release.

2. Colocate the job that has metron_agent.

   jobs:
     - name: some_job_z1
     templates:
     - name: metron_agent
       release: loggegator
   + - name: boshhmforwarder
   +   release: bosh-hm-forwarder
     instances: 1
     resource_pool: default
     networks:
       - name: default
     properties:
     # standard metron properties...

   Then bosh deploy this updated manifest.

3. Validate the metrics can be seen.

   Assuming you are using bosh-hm-forwarder-release with CF Release, you can use the CF Nozzle plugin

   cf nozzle -filter ValueMetric | grep "system.cpu.user"

Enable Bosh Director with OpenTSDB Plugin

The bosh director needs to be updated to enable the OpenTSDB health monitor.

Example manifest

The example manifest provided in manifests/ requires that the vars generated from loggregator are passed in.

For example:

bosh -d boshhmforwarder -e <env> deploy manifests/boshhmforwarder.yml --vars-file ./loggregator-vars.yml