Our application writes statsd metrics. We run this application inside a pod in a deployment in kubernetes. We’d like to use telegraf to collect these statsd metrics.
What’s the right way to do this?
Hi there, yup, here at influx we are using telegraf as a side car all the time.
Check out our blog here about it: Monitoring Kubernetes Architecture | InfluxData
You could configure telegraf to be a statsd collector and forward the data on.
In some recent work where I was building an k8s job, I actually decided against statsd style metrics because I did not want aggregation. I wanted each and every stat. So, I changed the telegraf side car from being a statsd collect to a socket listener that took line protocol directly. I’m not suggesting you switch, but, with a sidecar you’ll get the freedom to iterate.
