express-gateway-plugin-influx

express-gateway-plugin-influx

A simple Influx Client plugin for Express Gateway.

Installation

Simply copy/paste :

eg plugin install express-gateway-plugin-influx

Usage

Here is an example of how to use the plugin :

...
pipelines:
  default:
    policies:
      - influx:
          - action:
              measurement: request_duration
              influxdbSchema:
                host: localhost
                database: api_gw_requests
                port: 8082
...

Tags

The duration is tagged with the following list of tags:

  path: req.path,
  host: req.hostname,
  verb: req.method,
  status: res.statusCode,
  application: _application_

ids and uuid in the path are replaced by id using the following default regex : /([\da-fA-F]{8}\-[\da-fA-F]{4}\-[\da-fA-F]{4}\-[\da-fA-F]{4}\-[\da-fA-F]{12})|(\d+)/g

Configuration available

• measurement : (string) 'Measurement name (default: requests)'
• application: (string) 'The application name that you monitor (default: default)'
• removeIds: (boolean) 'Whether to remove Ids from the path that are sent to metrics or not (default: false)'
• removeIdsRegex: (string) 'Regex to use to match ids to remove from the path tag'
• bufferSize: (number) 'The size to match before sending the data to influx'
• influxdbSchema
  • host: (string) 'The HTTP endpoint when using the remote sampler (default: localhost)'
  • port: (number) 'The http port (default: 8086)'
  • protocol: (string) 'http/https ... (default: http)'
  • database: (string) 'Database in which to send the data'
  • username: (string) 'Username to connect to the database (default: root)'
  • password: (string) 'Password to connect to the database (default: root)'