tourbillon is an efficient, very simple and extensible agent that allows to collect metrics from servers or services and writes them into a InfluxDB.
It's is written in pure python.
tourbillon has been tested and it runs on Ubuntu 12.04 or greater, Centos 6 or greater and Mac OSX Maveriks or greater.
tourbillon works under python 2.7 and python 3.4 or greater.
You can browse the tourbillon documentation online, it is hosted on Read The Docs. The documentation of the latest version of tourbillon can be found here.
There are no special requirements to run tourbillon.
Download the debian package for your architecture:
Run dpkg to install it:
$ sudo dpkg -i tourbillon_0.5_amd64.deb
or for the 32 bit version:
$ sudo dpkg -i tourbillon_0.5_i386.deb
Download the rpm package for your architecture:
Run rpm to install it:
$ sudo rpm -i tourbillon-0.5-1.x86_64.rpm
or for the 32 bit version:
$ sudo rpm -i tourbillon-0.5-1.i686.rpm
It's strongly recomended to install tourbillon inside a virtualenv.
$ pip install tourbillon
Except for the debian package, you will need to generate the tourbillon's configuration file.
By default, the tourbillon's configuration is stored in /etc/tourbillon/tourbillon.conf.
To generate the configuration file type the following command:
$ tourbillon init
The init command will ask you for the InfluxDB's connection parameters and the logging configuration.
tourbillon has an index of official, featured and unofficial plugins. The plugins listed in the index are python packages hosted on pypi.
You can list the plugins present in the index by typing:
$ tourbillon list
The output of this command will only show the plugins compatible with you python runtime version.
To install a plugin enter:
$ tourbillon install <plugin-name>
After the installation it will be needed to create the plugin configuration file. By default tourbillon search for the plugins configuration file in /etc/tourbillon/conf.d. Please refer to the plugin documentation for detailed instruction.
If you have installed tourbillon from a distribution package enter:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/tourbillon start
If you have installed tourbillon with pip type:
$ tourbillon run
If you want to contribute to the project, you can submit bugs, feature requests, translations or fork the github repository and submit your pull request.
- Alba Vilardebò, logo designer, albavilardebo.com.
tourbillon and all the official plugins are released under the Apache License 2.0.