manpage.md

% kafka2influxdb(1) % Stéphane Martin % March 2017

NAME

kafka2influxdb – pull metrics stored in Kafka topics and push them to InfluxDB

SYNOPSIS

| kafka2influxdb [--config=DIRECTORY] check-topics | kafka2influxdb [--config=DIRECTORY] check-config | kafka2influxdb [--config=DIRECTORY] ping-influxdb | kafka2influxdb [--config=DIRECTORY] start [start-options] | kafka2influxdb stop [pidfile=PIDFILE] | kafka2influxdb install [--prefix=PREFIX] | kafka2influxdb default-config | kafka2influxdb --help

DESCRIPTION

kafka2influxdb:

| - connects to a Kafka cluster | - selects some topics | - pulls metrics from the topics | - parses the metrics as JSON or InfluxDB Line Protocol | - writes the metrics to InfluxDB as batches

COMMANDS

check-topics : List the Kafka topics that will be selected for consuming

default-config : Print the default configuration

check-config : Check the configuration syntax

ping-influxdb : Check that InfluxDB is available

start : Start to push the metrics

stop : Stop kafka2influxdb

install : Copy the kafka2influxdb binary to the PATH, create a manual page an a service file

OPTIONS

--config=DIRECTORY : The directory containing the configuration file kafka2influxdb.toml

--daemonize : Start kafka2influxdb in daemon mode

--syslog : Write log messages to syslog (messages will also be written to stdout)

--loglevel=LEVEL : Set logging level (info, debug, warn, error)

--logfile=LOGFILE : Write log messages to LOGFILE instead of stdout

--pidfile=PIDFILE : Write a PID file

prefix=PREFIX : Installation prefix

FILES

/etc/kafka2influxdb/kafka2influxdb.toml : Configuration file