Collectors

Decanter collectors harvest the monitoring data, and send this data to the Decanter appenders.

Two kinds of collector are available:

  • Event Driven Collectors react to events and "broadcast" the data to the appenders.

  • Polled Collectors are periodically executed by the Decanter Scheduler. When executed, the collectors harvest the data and send to the appenders.

Log

The Decanter Log Collector is an event driven collector. It automatically reacts when a log occurs, and send the log details (level, logger name, message, etc) to the appenders.

The decanter-collector-log feature installs the log collector:

karaf@root()> feature:install decanter-collector-log

The log collector doesn’t need any configuration, the installation of the decanter-collector-log feature is enough.

File

The Decanter File Collector is an event driven collector. It automatically reacts when new lines are appended into a file (especially a log file). It acts like the tail Unix command. Basically, it’s an alternative to the log collector. The log collector reacts for local Karaf log messages, whereas the file collector can react to any files, included log file from other system than Karaf. It means that you can monitor and send collected data for any system (even not Java base, or whatever).

The file collector deals with file rotation, file not found.

The decanter-collector-file feature installs the file collector:

karaf@root()> feature:install decanter-collector-file

Now, you have to create a configuration file for each file that you want to monitor. In the etc folder, you have to create a file with the following format name etc/org.apache.karaf.decanter.collector.file-ID.cfg where ID is an ID of your choice.

This file contains:

type=my
path=/path/to/file
any=value
  • type is an ID (mandatory) that allows you to easily identify the monitored file

  • path is the location of the file that you want to monitore

  • all other values (like any) will be part of the collected data. It means that you can add your own custom data, and easily create queries bases on this data.

For instance, instead of the log collector, you can create the following etc/org.apache.karaf.decanter.collector.file-karaf.cfg file collector configuration file:

type=karaf-log-file
path=/path/to/karaf/data/log/karaf.log
my=stuff

The file collector will tail on karaf.log file, and send any new line in this log file as collected data.

JMX

The Decanter JMX Collector is a polled collector, executed periodically by the Decanter Scheduler.

The JMX collector connects to a JMX MBeanServer (local or remote), and retrieves all attributes of each available MBeans. The JMX metrics (attribute values) are send to the appenders.

The decanter-collector-jmx feature installs the JMX collector, and a default configuration file:

karaf@root()> feature:install decanter-collector-jmx

This feature brings a etc/org.apache.karaf.decanter.collector.jmx-local.cfg configuration file containing:

#
# Decanter Local JMX collector configuration
#

# Name/type of the JMX collection
type=jmx-local

# URL of the JMX MBeanServer.
# local keyword means the local platform MBeanServer or you can specify to full JMX URL
# like service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://hostname:port/karaf-instance
url=local

# Username to connect to the JMX MBeanServer
#username=karaf

# Password to connect to the JMX MBeanServer
#password=karaf

# Object name filter to use. Instead of harvesting all MBeans, you can select only
# some MBeans matching the object name filter
#object.name=org.apache.camel:context=*,type=routes,name=*

This file harvests the data of the local MBeanServer:

  • the type property is a name (of your choice) allowing you to easily identify the harvested data

  • the url property is the MBeanServer to connect. "local" is reserved keyword to specify the local MBeanServer. Instead of "local", you can use the JMX service URL. For instance, for Karaf version 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3, as the local MBeanServer is secured, you can specify service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:1099/karaf-root. You can also polled any remote MBean server (Karaf based or not) providing the service URL.

  • the username property contains the username to connect to the MBean server. It’s only required if the MBean server is secured.

  • the password property contains the password to connect to the MBean server. It’s only required if the MBean server is secured.

  • the object.name property is optional. If this property is not specified, the collector will retrieve the attributes of all MBeans. You can filter to consider only some MBeans. This property contains the ObjectName filter to retrieve the attributes only to some MBeans.

  • any other values will be part of the collected data. It means that you can add your own property if you want to add additional data, and create queries based on this data.

You can retrieve multiple MBean servers. For that, you just create a new configuration file using the file name format etc/org.apache.karaf.decanter.collector.jmx-[ANYNAME].cfg.

ActiveMQ (JMX)

The ActiveMQ JMX collector is just a special configuration of the JMX collector.

The decanter-collector-activemq feature installs the default JMX collector, with the specific ActiveMQ JMX configuration:

karaf@root()> feature:install decanter-collector-activemq

This feature installs the same collector as the decanter-collector-jmx, but also add the etc/org.apache.karaf.decanter.collector.jmx-activemq.cfg configuration file.

This file contains:

#
# Decanter Local ActiveMQ JMX collector configuration
#

# Name/type of the JMX collection
type=jmx-activemq

# URL of the JMX MBeanServer.
# local keyword means the local platform MBeanServer or you can specify to full JMX URL
# like service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://hostname:port/karaf-instance
url=local

# Username to connect to the JMX MBeanServer
#username=karaf

# Password to connect to the JMX MBeanServer
#password=karaf

# Object name filter to use. Instead of harvesting all MBeans, you can select only
# some MBeans matching the object name filter
object.name=org.apache.activemq:*

This configuration actually contains a filter to retrieve only the ActiveMQ JMX MBeans.

Camel (JMX)

The Camel JMX collector is just a special configuration of the JMX collector.

The decanter-collector-camel feature installs the default JMX collector, with the specific Camel JMX configuration:

karaf@root()> feature:install decanter-collector-camel

This feature installs the same collector as the decanter-collector-jmx, but also add the etc/org.apache.karaf.decanter.collector.jmx-camel.cfg configuration file.

This file contains:

#
# Decanter Local Camel JMX collector configuration
#

# Name/type of the JMX collection
type=jmx-camel

# URL of the JMX MBeanServer.
# local keyword means the local platform MBeanServer or you can specify to full JMX URL
# like service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://hostname:port/karaf-instance
url=local

# Username to connect to the JMX MBeanServer
#username=karaf

# Password to connect to the JMX MBeanServer
#password=karaf

# Object name filter to use. Instead of harvesting all MBeans, you can select only
# some MBeans matching the object name filter
object.name=org.apache.camel:context=*,type=routes,name=*

This configuration actually contains a filter to retrieve only the Camel Routes JMX MBeans.

Camel Tracer

The Camel Tracer provides a Camel Tracer Handler that you can set on a Camel Tracer.

If you enable the tracer on a Camel route, all tracer events (exchanges on each step of the route) are send to the appenders.

The decanter-collector-camel-tracer feature provides the Camel Tracer Handler:

karaf@root()> feature:install decanter-collector-camel-tracer

Now, you can use the Decanter Camel Tracer Handler in a tracer that you can use in routes.

For instance, the following route definition shows how to enable tracer on a route, and use the Decanter Tracer Handler in the Camel Tracer:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0">

    <reference id="eventAdmin" interface="org.osgi.service.event.EventAdmin"/>

    <bean id="traceHandler" class="org.apache.karaf.decanter.collector.camel.DecanterTraceEventHandler">
        <property name="eventAdmin" ref="eventAdmin"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="tracer" class="org.apache.camel.processor.interceptor.Tracer">
        <property name="traceHandler" ref="traceHandler"/>
        <property name="enabled" value="true"/>
        <property name="traceOutExchanges" value="true"/>
        <property name="logLevel" value="OFF"/>
    </bean>

    <camelContext trace="true" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route id="test">
            <from uri="timer:fire?period=10000"/>
            <setBody><constant>Hello World</constant></setBody>
            <to uri="log:test"/>
        </route>
    </camelContext>

</blueprint>

System

The system collector is a polled collector (periodically executed by the Decanter Scheduler).

This collector executes operating system commands (or scripts) and send the execution output to the appenders.

The decanter-collector-system feature installs the system collector:

karaf@root()> feature:install decanter-collector-system

This feature installs a default etc/org.apache.karaf.decanter.collector.system.cfg configuration file containing:

#
# Decanter OperationSystem Collector configuration
#

# This collector executes system commands, retrieve the exec output/err
# sent to the appenders
#
# The format is key=command
# for instance:
# df=df -h
# free=free
# You can also create a script containing command like:
#
#   df -k / | awk -F " |%" '/dev/{print $8}'
#
# This script will get the available space on the / filesystem for instance.
# and call the script:
# df=/bin/script
#
# Another example of script to get the temperature:
#
#   sensors|grep temp1|awk '{print $2}'|cut -b2,3,4,5
#

You can add the commands that you want to execute using the format:

name=command

The collector will execute each command described in this file, and send the execution output to the appenders.

For instance, if you want to periodically send the free space available on the / filesystem, you can add:

df=df -k / | awk -F " |%" '/dev/{print $8}'