Docker Image with Telegraf (StatsD), InfluxDB and Grafana

We made this a modular example that is easy to fork and change so if you are setting up the TICK stack, you can prototype quickly.

Source code

The source code for this project can be found Source code.

Docker hub

This docker container is hosted on docker hub.

Status of the above changes

We updated to the latest versions of InfluxDB, Telegraf, Grafana and Chronograf circa October 2017.

CHRONOGRAF_VERSION=1.3.9.0
GRAFANA_VERSION=4.5.2
INFLUXDB_VERSION=1.3.6
TELEGRAF_VERSION=1.4.2

Chronograf takes the place of the old InfluxDB Admin. Chronograf can take on a lot of tasks that Grafana gets used for. Telegraf is what we use to adapt InfluxDB to STATSD.

Quick Start

To start the container the first time launch:

docker run --name grafana \
  -p 3003:3003 \
  -p 8083:8083 \
  -p 8086:8086 \
  -p 22022:22 \
  -p 8125:8125/udp \
  cloudurable/statsd-influxdb-grafana:latest \
  /usr/bin/supervisord

You can replace latest with the desired version.

To stop the container launch:

docker stop grafana

To start the container again launch:

docker start grafana

Mapped Ports

Host		Container		Service

3003		3003			grafana
8083		8083			chronograf
8086		8086			influxdb
8125		8125			statsd
22022		22				sshd

SSH

ssh root@localhost -p 22022

Password: root

Grafana

Open http://localhost:3003

Username: root
Password: grafana

Add data source on Grafana

1. Using the wizard click on Add data source
2. Choose a name for the source and flag it as Default
3. Choose InfluxDB as type
4. Choose direct as access
5. Fill remaining fields as follows and click on Add without altering other fields

Url: http://localhost:8086
Database:	telegraf
User: telegraf
Password:	telegraf

Basic auth and credentials must be left unflagged. Proxy is not required.

Now you are ready to add your first dashboard and launch some query on database.

InfluxDB

Web Admin Interface

Open http://localhost:8083

Username: root
Password: root
Port: 8086

Forked

This project is forked from docker-statsd-influxdb-grafana which seemed to be stuck a few versions back.

For our needs we need MySQL to be hosted by RDS. We need Centos instead of Ubuntu (client requirements). And we prefer to use packer instead of Dockerfile to create the image (personal preference and so we can deploy direct to AWS if needed without). We also want to make data directories settable via ENV variables so we can mount EBS volumes that we can detach and attach to host that is hosting Docker Host. And last but not least, we want to use the latest versions.

InfluxDB Shell (CLI)

1. Establish a ssh connection with the container
2. Launch influx to open InfluxDB Shell (CLI)

Build with docker

docker build -t cloudurable/grafana:v1   .
docker build -t cloudurable/grafana:latest  .

Build with packer

packer build packer.json

Push

docker push  cloudurable/grafana

Developer Notes

Run and debug

docker run -i -t cloudurable/statsd-influxdb-grafana:0.4  /bin/bash

Attach

docker exec -it  424761df905b  bash

Ports

netstat -plnt

Clean up old images

docker images | grep none | awk '{print $3}' | xargs docker rmi

Clean up old containers

docker ps -a  | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker stop
docker ps -a  | grep Exited | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker rm

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