misnow1 / collectd-haproxy

A collectd plugin to collect statistics from HAProxy

collectd-haproxy

This is a collectd plugin to pull HAProxy (http://haproxy.1wt.eu) stats from the HAProxy management socket. It is written in Python and as such, runs under the collectd Python plugin.

Requirements

HAProxy
To use this plugin, HAProxy must be configured to create a management socket with the stats socket configuration option. collectd must have read/write access to the socket.

collectd
collectd must have the Python plugin installed. See (http://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd-python.5.shtml)

Options

• ProxyMonitor
  Proxy to monitor. If unset, defaults to ['server', 'frontend', 'backend']. Specify multiple times to specify additional proxies
• Socket File location of the HAProxy management socket

Example

<LoadPlugin python>
    Globals true
</LoadPlugin>

<Plugin python>
    # haproxy.py is at /usr/lib64/collectd/haproxy.py
    ModulePath "/usr/lib64/collectd/"

    Import "haproxy"

    <Module haproxy>
      Socket "/var/run/haproxy.sock"
      ProxyMonitor "server"
      ProxyMonitor "backend"
    </Module>
</Plugin>