Mesos Marathon 🔗

Description 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector provides this integration as the Mesos Marathon monitor type by using the Smart Agent Receiver.

Use this integration to monitor a Mesos Marathon instance using the Marathon Python plugin.

Note

This monitor is not available on Windows as collectd plugins are only supported in Linux and Kubernetes.

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:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:
- Install on Kubernetes
- Install on Linux
Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.
Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration 🔗

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

Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.
Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

Read more on how to Use Smart Agent monitors with the Collector.
See how to set up the Smart Agent receiver.
Learn about config options in Collector default configuration.

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

To complete the integration, include the Smart Agent receiver using this monitor in a metrics pipeline. To do this, add the receiver to the service > pipelines > metrics > receivers section of your configuration file.

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

See configuration examples for specific use cases that show how the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector can integrate and complement existing environments.

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the Mesos Marathon monitor:

Option	Required	Type	Description
`pythonBinary`	no	`string`	Path to a python binary that should be used to execute the Python code. If not set, a built-in runtime will be used. Can include arguments to the binary as well.
`host`	yes	`string`	Host of the exporter
`port`	yes	`integer`	Port of the exporter
`username`	no	`string`	Username used to authenticate with Marathon.
`password`	no	`string`	Password used to authenticate with Marathon.
`scheme`	no	`string`	Set to either `http` or `https`. (default: `http`)
`dcosAuthURL`	no	`string`	The dcos authentication URL that the plugin uses to get authentication tokens from. Set scheme to “https” if operating DC/OS in strict mode and dcosAuthURL to “https://leader.mesos/acs/api/v1/auth/login” (which is the default DNS entry provided by DC/OS)

The following is a sample YAML configuration:

monitors:
  - type: collectd/marathon
    host: 127.0.0.1
    port: 8080
    scheme: http

The following is a sample YAML configuration for DC/OS:

monitors:
  - type: collectd/marathon
    host: 127.0.0.1
    port: 8080
    scheme: https
    dcosAuthURL: https://leader.mesos/acs/api/v1/auth/login

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.

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