Ganglia

Since Camel 2.15

Provides a mechanism to send a value (the message body) as a metric to the Ganglia monitoring system. Uses the gmetric4j library. Can be used in conjunction with standard Ganglia and JMXetric for monitoring metrics from the OS, JVM and business processes through a single platform.

You should have a Ganglia gmond agent running on the machine where your JVM runs. The gmond sends a heartbeat to the Ganglia infrastructure, camel-ganglia can’t send the heartbeat itself currently.

On most Linux systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and RHEL/CentOS with EPEL) you can just install the Ganglia agent package and it runs automatically using multicast configuration. You can configure it to use regular UDP unicast if you prefer.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-ganglia</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

URI format

ganglia:address:port[?options]

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=value&…

Ganglia component and endpoint URI options

The Ganglia component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
configuration (advanced)	To use the shared configuration		GangliaConfiguration
resolveProperty Placeholders (advanced)	Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.	true	boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

configuration (advanced)

To use the shared configuration

GangliaConfiguration

resolveProperty Placeholders (advanced)

Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.

true

boolean

The Ganglia endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

ganglia:host:port

with the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (2 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
host	Host name for Ganglia server	239.2.11.71	String
port	Port for Ganglia server	8649	int

Name

Description

Default

Type

host

Host name for Ganglia server

239.2.11.71

String

port

Port for Ganglia server

8649

int

Query Parameters (13 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
dmax (producer)	Minumum time in seconds before Ganglia will purge the metric value if it expires. Set to 0 and the value will remain in Ganglia indefinitely until a gmond agent restart.	0	int
groupName (producer)	The group that the metric belongs to.	java	String
metricName (producer)	The name to use for the metric.	metric	String
mode (producer)	Send the UDP metric packets using MULTICAST or UNICAST	MULTICAST	UDPAddressingMode
prefix (producer)	Prefix the metric name with this string and an underscore.		String
slope (producer)	The slope	BOTH	GMetricSlope
spoofHostname (producer)	Spoofing information IP:hostname		String
tmax (producer)	Maximum time in seconds that the value can be considered current. After this, Ganglia considers the value to have expired.	60	int
ttl (producer)	If using multicast, set the TTL of the packets	5	int
type (producer)	The type of value	STRING	GMetricType
units (producer)	Any unit of measurement that qualifies the metric, e.g. widgets, litres, bytes. Do not include a prefix such as k (kilo) or m (milli), other tools may scale the units later. The value should be unscaled.		String
wireFormat31x (producer)	Use the wire format of Ganglia 3.1.0 and later versions. Set this to false to use Ganglia 3.0.x or earlier.	true	boolean
synchronous (advanced)	Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).	false	boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

dmax (producer)

Minumum time in seconds before Ganglia will purge the metric value if it expires. Set to 0 and the value will remain in Ganglia indefinitely until a gmond agent restart.

int

groupName (producer)

The group that the metric belongs to.

java

String

metricName (producer)

The name to use for the metric.

metric

String

mode (producer)

Send the UDP metric packets using MULTICAST or UNICAST

MULTICAST

UDPAddressingMode

prefix (producer)

Prefix the metric name with this string and an underscore.

String

slope (producer)

The slope

BOTH

GMetricSlope

spoofHostname (producer)

Spoofing information IP:hostname

String

tmax (producer)

Maximum time in seconds that the value can be considered current. After this, Ganglia considers the value to have expired.

int

ttl (producer)

If using multicast, set the TTL of the packets

int

type (producer)

The type of value

STRING

GMetricType

units (producer)

Any unit of measurement that qualifies the metric, e.g. widgets, litres, bytes. Do not include a prefix such as k (kilo) or m (milli), other tools may scale the units later. The value should be unscaled.

String

wireFormat31x (producer)

Use the wire format of Ganglia 3.1.0 and later versions. Set this to false to use Ganglia 3.0.x or earlier.

true

boolean

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-ganglia-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 16 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.dmax	Minumum time in seconds before Ganglia will purge the metric value if it expires. Set to 0 and the value will remain in Ganglia indefinitely until a gmond agent restart.	0	Integer
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.group-name	The group that the metric belongs to.	java	String
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.host	Host name for Ganglia server	239.2.11.71	String
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.metric-name	The name to use for the metric.	metric	String
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.mode	Send the UDP metric packets using MULTICAST or UNICAST		GMetric$UDP AddressingMode
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.port	Port for Ganglia server	8649	Integer
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.prefix	Prefix the metric name with this string and an underscore.		String
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.slope	The slope		GMetricSlope
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.spoof-hostname	Spoofing information IP:hostname		String
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.tmax	Maximum time in seconds that the value can be considered current. After this, Ganglia considers the value to have expired.	60	Integer
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.ttl	If using multicast, set the TTL of the packets	5	Integer
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.type	The type of value		GMetricType
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.units	Any unit of measurement that qualifies the metric, e.g. widgets, litres, bytes. Do not include a prefix such as k (kilo) or m (milli), other tools may scale the units later. The value should be unscaled.		String
camel.component.ganglia.configuration.wire-format31x	Use the wire format of Ganglia 3.1.0 and later versions. Set this to false to use Ganglia 3.0.x or earlier.	true	Boolean
camel.component.ganglia.enabled	Enable ganglia component	true	Boolean
camel.component.ganglia.resolve-property-placeholders	Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.	true	Boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.dmax

Minumum time in seconds before Ganglia will purge the metric value if it expires. Set to 0 and the value will remain in Ganglia indefinitely until a gmond agent restart.

Integer

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.group-name

The group that the metric belongs to.

java

String

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.host

Host name for Ganglia server

239.2.11.71

String

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.metric-name

The name to use for the metric.

metric

String

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.mode

Send the UDP metric packets using MULTICAST or UNICAST

GMetric$UDP AddressingMode

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.port

Port for Ganglia server

8649

Integer

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.prefix

Prefix the metric name with this string and an underscore.

String

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.slope

The slope

GMetricSlope

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.spoof-hostname

Spoofing information IP:hostname

String

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.tmax

Maximum time in seconds that the value can be considered current. After this, Ganglia considers the value to have expired.

Integer

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.ttl

If using multicast, set the TTL of the packets

Integer

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.type

The type of value

GMetricType

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.units

String

camel.component.ganglia.configuration.wire-format31x

Use the wire format of Ganglia 3.1.0 and later versions. Set this to false to use Ganglia 3.0.x or earlier.

true

Boolean

camel.component.ganglia.enabled

Enable ganglia component

true

Boolean

camel.component.ganglia.resolve-property-placeholders

Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.

true

Boolean

Message body

Any value (such as a string or numeric type) in the body is sent to the Ganglia system.

Return value / response

Ganglia sends metrics using unidirectional UDP or multicast. There is no response or change to the message body.

Examples

Sending a String metric

The message body will be converted to a String and sent as a metric value. Unlike numeric metrics, String values can’t be charted but Ganglia makes them available for reporting. The os_version string at the top of every Ganglia host page is an example of a String metric.

from("direct:string.for.ganglia")
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_NAME, simple("my_string_metric"))
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_TYPE, GMetricType.STRING)
    .to("direct:ganglia.tx");

from("direct:ganglia.tx")
    .to("ganglia:239.2.11.71:8649?mode=MULTICAST&prefix=test");

Sending a numeric metric

from("direct:value.for.ganglia")
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_NAME, simple("widgets_in_stock"))
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_TYPE, GMetricType.UINT32)
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_UNITS, simple("widgets"))
    .to("direct:ganglia.tx");

from("direct:ganglia.tx")
    .to("ganglia:239.2.11.71:8649?mode=MULTICAST&prefix=test");