httpstergeek / carbonmine

Carbon Mine is a Splunk Search command that uses Graphites render url api and retrieves raw json data. This Splunk utilizes requests python modules.

Carbon Mine - A Splunk Search Command for Graphite

Carbon Mine is a Splunk Search command that uses Graphites render url api and retrieves raw json data.

##Supports:

• Supports multiple graphite Instances

• Proxy support

• Supports multiple targets

Requirements

• This version has been test on 6.x and should work on 5.x.

• App is known to work on Linux,and Mac OS X, but has not been tested on other operating systems. Window should work

• App requires network access to Graphite Server

• Miminum of 2 GB RAM and 1.8 GHz CPU.

Prerequisites

• Graphite 9.x or Higher

• Splunk version 6.x or Higher

You can download it [Splunk][splunk-download]. And see the [Splunk documentation] for instructions on installing and more. [Splunk]:http://www.splunk.com [Splunk documentation]:http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/User [splunk-download]:http://www.splunk.com/download

Installation instructions

1. copy repo into $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/.

2. create $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/carbonmin/local/carbonmine.conf.

3. configure [production] stanza with url to graphite instance. Note: if proxy look at README for proxy config.

Example Command

| carbonmine earliest=-1hour latest=now target=nonNegativeDerivative(.elasticsearch.indices._all.search.query_total) OR | carbonmine target=nonNegativeDerivative(.elasticsearch.indices._all.search.query_total) OR | carbonmine target=nonNegativeDerivative(.elasticsearch.indices._all.search.query_total) instance=dev OR | carbonmine target="nonNegativeDerivative(.elasticsearch.indices._all.search.query_total),nonNegativeDerivative(*.elasticsearch.indices._all.search.query_total.pct99)" instance=dev

Recommendations

It is recommend that this be installed on an Search head.