[collectd] Exec script

[Marc Fournier]

Collectd User <collectd.org at siimnet.dk> writes:

>> On 15. feb. 2016, at 10.55, Collectd User <collectd.org at siimnet.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> Fellow Collectors,
>> 
>> Trying my first exec plugin script, but it’s not working 100%.
>> 
>> I’ve added this type in /usr/share/collectd/types.db on the end point collecting the data:
>> 
>> ssdhealth               health:GAUGE:0:100.1, hours:GAUGE:0:4294967295
>> 
>> and submits data on stdout like this:
>> 
>> PUTVAL d1r1n1/ssdhealth-1I:1:3/ssdhealth 1452173939:100.00:2227
>> 
>> but after coming through my logstash and into elasticsearch, I’m missing health and hours fields in stored ES documents and wondering why only these two rather important fileds are missing…
>> 
>> any hints on howto debug this appreciated, TIA!
> Any one?

Mmmh, not sure exactly how the collectd protocol decoder works on the
logstash side, but I could imagine it needs the matching types in
types.db. Did you try adding your "ssdhealth" type to logstash's
types.db ?

Other than that, maybe try enabling the cvs plugin to make sure
everything works fine on the collectd side.

Cheers,
Marc