valuecounter

ValueCounter Aggregator Plugin

The valuecounter plugin counts the occurrence of values in fields and emits the counter once every 'period' seconds.

A use case for the valuecounter plugin is when you are processing a HTTP access log (with the logparser input) and want to count the HTTP status codes.

The fields which will be counted must be configured with the fields configuration directive. When no fields is provided the plugin will not count any fields. The results are emitted in fields in the format: originalfieldname_fieldvalue = count.

Valuecounter only works on fields of the type int, bool or string. Float fields are being dropped to prevent the creating of too many fields.

Configuration:

[[aggregators.valuecounter]]
  ## General Aggregator Arguments:
  ## The period on which to flush & clear the aggregator.
  period = "30s"
  ## If true, the original metric will be dropped by the
  ## aggregator and will not get sent to the output plugins.
  drop_original = false
  ## The fields for which the values will be counted
  fields = ["status"]

Measurements & Fields:

• measurement1
  • field_value1
  • field_value2

Tags:

No tags are applied by this aggregator.

Example Output:

Example for parsing a HTTP access log.

telegraf.conf:

[[inputs.logparser]]
  files = ["/tmp/tst.log"]
  [inputs.logparser.grok]
    patterns = ['%{DATA:url:tag} %{NUMBER:response:string}']
    measurement = "access"

[[aggregators.valuecounter]]
  namepass = ["access"]
  fields = ["response"]

/tmp/tst.log

/some/path 200
/some/path 401
/some/path 200

$ telegraf --config telegraf.conf --quiet

access,url=/some/path,path=/tmp/tst.log,host=localhost.localdomain response="200" 1511948755991487011
access,url=/some/path,path=/tmp/tst.log,host=localhost.localdomain response="401" 1511948755991522282
access,url=/some/path,path=/tmp/tst.log,host=localhost.localdomain response="200" 1511948755991531697

access,path=/tmp/tst.log,host=localhost.localdomain,url=/some/path response_200=2i,response_401=1i 1511948761000000000