Simple Log Service:Collect metric data from Prometheus by using a Logtail plug-in

Limits

Only Linux Logtail V0.16.66 and later can collect Prometheus metric data. If you have installed an earlier version of Logtail on your server, you must update Logtail to a supported version. For more information, see Install Logtail on a Linux server.

Procedure

1. Log on to the Simple Log Service console.

2. In the Import Data section, click the Monitoring Data tab. Then, click Prometheus Metric Scrape.

3. Select the project and Metricstore. Then, click Next.

4. Create a machine group.

   • If a machine group is available, click Use Existing Machine Groups.

   • If no machine groups are available, perform the following steps to create a machine group. In this example, an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance is used.

     1. On the ECS Instances tab, select Manually Select Instances. Then, select the ECS instance that you want to use and click Create.

        For more information, see Install Logtail on ECS instances.

        Important

        If you want to collect logs from an ECS instance that belongs to a different Alibaba Cloud account than Simple Log Service, a server in a data center, or a server of a third-party cloud service provider, you must manually install Logtail. For more information, see Install Logtail on a Linux server. After you manually install Logtail, you must configure a user identifier for the server. For more information, see Configure a user identifier.

     2. After Logtail is installed, click Complete Installation.

     3. In the Create Machine Group step, configure the Name parameter and click Next.

        Simple Log Service allows you to create IP address-based machine groups and custom identifier-based machine groups. For more information, see Create an IP address-based machine group and Create a custom identifier-based machine group.

5. Confirm that the machine group is displayed in the Applied Server Groups section and click Next.

   Important

   If you apply a machine group immediately after you create the machine group, the heartbeat status of the machine group may be FAIL. This issue occurs because the machine group is not connected to Simple Log Service. To resolve this issue, you can click Automatic Retry. If the issue persists, see What do I do if no heartbeat connections are detected on Logtail?

6. In the Specify Data Source step, configure Config Name and Plug-in Config. Then, click Next.

   Plug-in Config includes inputs and processors. Log Service provides a template for inputs. The template includes only the global and scrape_configs sections.

   • inputs is required and is used to configure the data collection settings for the Logtail configuration.

     Important

     • You can configure fields only in the global and scrape_configs sections regardless of whether you collect Prometheus-format metrics or Prometheus metrics. For more information, see Prometheus configuration.

     • You can configure only one type of data source in inputs.

   • processors is optional and is used to configure the data processing settings for the Logtail configuration. For more information, see Append data to a field.

     If you want to append custom fields, such as the IP address of the server on which Logtail is installed and the hostname of the server, to the collected metric data, you must turn on Use Advanced Edit Mode to add processors settings. In this case, the processor_appender plug-in must be used. Example:

     {
       "processors":[
         {
           "type":"processor_appender",
           "detail": {
             "Key": "__labels__",
             "Value": "|host#$#{{__host__}}|ip#$#{{__ip__}}",
             "SortLabels": true
           }
         }
       ]
     }