Configuration¶

Configuring the collectd-haproxy plugin is done just like any other python-based plugin for collectd, for details see the python plugin docs.

There are six available options (only the Socket option is required):

LoadPlugin "python"

<Plugin python>
    Import "collectd_haproxy"

    <Module haproxy>
      Socket "/var/run/haproxy.sock"
      IncludeInfo true
      IncludeStats true
      IncludeFrontendStats true
      IncludeBackendStats true
      IncludeServerStats true
    </Module>
</Plugin>

Socket (required)¶

This is the path where the HAProxy socket file is located, e.g. /var/run/haproxy.sock

IncludeInfo¶

A boolean value denoting whether or not to collect the “info” metrics that describe the state of the whole HAProxy process, metrics such as uptime seconds, current total connections, size of the run queue, etc.

Defaults to true

IncludeStats¶

Flag for whether to collect proxy “stats” metrics. These are detailed metrics for individual proxies in HAProxy, such as HTTP status 200 response count, bytes in/out, queued request count, etc. The full list of metrics available can be found in the HAProxy ‘show stats’ docs.

More granular control of which stats to collectd is available via the IncludeFrontendStats, IncludeBackendStats and IncludeServerStats options.

This option takes precedence over the more granular ones. That is, if IncludeStats is false, no proxy-level stats will be collected regardless of the other Include*Stats option values.

Defaults to true

IncludeFrontendStats¶

Granular flag for collecting stats for the “frontend” of a proxy, where connections are accepted.

Defaults to true

IncludeBackendStats¶

Granular flag for collecting aggregate stats for the “backend” of a proxy. Each proxy can have any number of individual servers in a backend, and these stats are aggregated across the whole lot.

Defaults to true

IncludeServerStats¶

Granular flag for collecting stats for individual servers that make up the backends of proxies.

Note

This doesn’t include ways to filter specific servers, it merely determines whether stats at the individual server level are collected at all or not.

Defaults to true