HAProxy and Nebius Cloud Monitoring Integration

Input and output integration overview

This plugin gathers and reports statistics from HAProxy, a popular open-source load balancer and proxy server, to help in monitoring and optimizing its performance.

This plugin allows users to effortlessly send aggregated metrics to Nebius Cloud Monitoring, leveraging the cloud’s monitoring solutions.

Integration details

HAProxy

The HAProxy plugin for Telegraf enables users to gather statistics directly from a HAProxy server via its stats socket or HTTP statistics page. HAProxy is a widely employed software load balancer and proxy server that provides high availability and performance for TCP and HTTP applications. By integrating with HAProxy, this plugin allows users to monitor and analyze various performance metrics such as active server counts, request rates, response codes, and session statuses in real-time, facilitating better decision-making and proactive management of network resources. Key features include support for both HTTP and socket-based metrics collection, compatibility with basic authentication for secure access, and configurable options for metric field naming, allowing for customization tailored to user preferences.

Nebius Cloud Monitoring

The Nebius Cloud Monitoring plugin serves as an intermediary to send custom metrics to the Nebius Cloud Monitoring service. It is designed specifically to facilitate the monitoring of applications and services running within the Nebius ecosystem. This plugin is especially useful for users of the Nebius Cloud Platform who need to leverage cloud-based monitoring capabilities without significant configuration overhead. The plugin’s integration relies on Google Cloud metadata, allowing it to automatically fetch the necessary authentication credentials from the Compute instance it operates within. Key technical considerations include the management of reserved labels to ensure metrics are recorded correctly without conflicts.

Configuration

HAProxy

[[inputs.haproxy]]
  ## List of stats endpoints. Metrics can be collected from both http and socket
  ## endpoints. Examples of valid endpoints:
  ##   - http://myhaproxy.com:1936/haproxy?stats
  ##   - https://myhaproxy.com:8000/stats
  ##   - socket:/run/haproxy/admin.sock
  ##   - /run/haproxy/*.sock
  ##   - tcp://127.0.0.1:1936
  ##
  ## Server addresses not starting with 'http://', 'https://', 'tcp://' will be
  ## treated as possible sockets. When specifying local socket, glob patterns are
  ## supported.
  servers = ["http://myhaproxy.com:1936/haproxy?stats"]

  ## By default, some of the fields are renamed from what haproxy calls them.
  ## Setting this option to true results in the plugin keeping the original
  ## field names.
  # keep_field_names = false

  ## Optional TLS Config
  # tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  ## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
  # insecure_skip_verify = false

Nebius Cloud Monitoring

[[outputs.nebius_cloud_monitoring]]
  ## Timeout for HTTP writes.
  # timeout = "20s"

  ## Nebius.Cloud monitoring API endpoint. Normally should not be changed
  # endpoint = "https://monitoring.api.il.nebius.cloud/monitoring/v2/data/write"

Input and output integration examples

HAProxy

1. Dynamic Load Adjustment: Utilize the HAProxy plugin to monitor traffic patterns in real time, enabling automated adjustments to load balancing algorithms. By continuously gathering metrics on server loads and request rates, system administrators can dynamically allocate resources, ensuring that no single server becomes a bottleneck, thus enhancing overall application performance and availability.

2. Historical Performance Analytics: Integrate this plugin with a time series database to collect HAProxy metrics over time, allowing you to analyze historical performance and traffic trends. This can facilitate predictive analysis and planning for capacity, giving businesses insights into peak traffic times and helping to identify potential future resource needs.

3. Alerting on Anomalies: Implement alerting workflows that trigger when unusual patterns are detected in HAProxy metrics, such as sudden spikes in error rates or drops in request handling capacity. By leveraging this plugin, operations teams can receive timely notifications, allowing for swift intervention and minimizing the impact of potential downtime on end-users.

Nebius Cloud Monitoring

1. Dynamic Application Monitoring: Integrate this plugin with your application to continuously send metrics related to resource usage, such as CPU and memory utilization, to Nebius Cloud Monitoring. By doing so, you can gain insights into the performance of your application, allowing for adjustments in real-time based on the metrics received.

2. Incident Response Automation: Use the Nebius Cloud Monitoring plugin to automatically send alerts and metrics when certain thresholds are reached. For instance, if a particular service’s uptime drops below a certain percentage, the plugin can be configured to report this directly to the monitoring service, enabling quicker incident response and resolution.

3. Comparative Service Analysis: Set up the plugin to send metrics from multiple cloud instances running different versions of the same application to Nebius Cloud Monitoring. This approach allows for a comparative analysis of resource usage and performance, helping teams determine which version performs best under similar workloads.

4. Aggregated Metrics Dashboard: Use this plugin to create a centralized dashboard displaying metrics from various services across your cloud instances. By aggregating different application metrics into one interface, stakeholders can assess the overall health and performance of their cloud environment easily.

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