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Apache Zookeeper 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the Apache Zookeeper monitor type to keep track of an Apache Zookeeper instance using the Zookeeper plugin.

This integration is only available on Kubernetes and Linux.

The plugin supports Zookeeper 3.4.0 and higher.

Benefits 🔗

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

  • View metrics. You can create your own custom dashboards, and most monitors provide built-in dashboards as well. For information about dashboards, see View dashboards in Observability Cloud.

  • View a data-driven visualization of the physical servers, virtual machines, AWS instances, and other resources in your environment that are visible to Infrastructure Monitoring. For information about navigators, see Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring navigators.

  • Access the Metric Finder and search for metrics sent by the monitor. For information, see Use the Metric Finder.

Installation 🔗

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

  1. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:

  2. Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.

  3. Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration 🔗

To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:

  1. Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.

  2. Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

Example 🔗

To activate this integration, add the following to your Collector configuration:

receivers:
smartagent/zookeeper:
type: collectd/zookeeper
... # Additional config

Next, add the monitor to the service.pipelines.metrics.receivers section of your configuration file:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/zookeeper]

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the Apache Zookeeper monitor:

Option

Required

Type

Description

pythonBinary

no

string

This string contains a path to a python binary that you want to use to execute the Python code. If you don’t set it, the system uses a built-in runtime will be used. The string can include arguments to the binary.

host

yes

string

This string specifies the host or IP address of the Apache Zookeeper node.

port

yes

integer

This value specifies the main port of the Zookeeper node.

name

no

string

If you provide this string, the system inserts it as the value of the plugin_instance dimension for emitted

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics are available for this integration:

Notes 🔗

  • Learn more about the available metric types in Observability Cloud.

  • Default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See more about metric categories.

  • To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics using the Collector.

Group leader metrics 🔗

All of the following metrics are part of the leader metric group. To activate them, add leader to the extraGroups setting:

  • gauge.zk_followers

  • gauge.zk_pending_syncs

  • gauge.zk_synced_followers

Troubleshooting 🔗

If you are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, try these tips:

To learn about even more support options, see Splunk Customer Success.