This plugin consumes telemetry data based on the gNMI Subscribe method. TLS is supported for authentication and encryption. This input plugin is vendor-agnostic and is supported on any platform that supports the gNMI spec.
For Cisco devices:
It has been optimized to support gNMI telemetry as produced by Cisco IOS XR (64-bit) version 6.5.1, Cisco NX-OS 9.3 and Cisco IOS XE 16.12 and later.
Please check the troubleshooting section in case of problems, e.g. when getting an empty metric-name warning!
This plugin is a service input. Normal plugins gather metrics determined by the interval setting. Service plugins start a service to listens and waits for metrics or events to occur. Service plugins have two key differences from normal plugins:
- The global or plugin specific
intervalsetting may not apply - The CLI options of
--test,--test-wait, and--oncemay not produce output for this plugin
In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.
This plugin supports secrets from secret-stores for the username and
password options. See the secret-store documentation for more
details on how to use them.
# gNMI telemetry input plugin
[[inputs.gnmi]]
## Address and port of the gNMI GRPC server
addresses = ["10.49.234.114:57777"]
## define credentials
username = "cisco"
password = "cisco"
## gNMI encoding requested (one of: "proto", "json", "json_ietf", "bytes")
# encoding = "proto"
## redial in case of failures after
# redial = "10s"
## gRPC Keepalive settings
## See https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/grpc/keepalive
## The client will ping the server to see if the transport is still alive if it has
## not see any activity for the given time.
## If not set, none of the keep-alive setting (including those below) will be applied.
## If set and set below 10 seconds, the gRPC library will apply a minimum value of 10s will be used instead.
# keepalive_time = ""
## Timeout for seeing any activity after the keep-alive probe was
## sent. If no activity is seen the connection is closed.
# keepalive_timeout = ""
## gRPC Maximum Message Size
# max_msg_size = "4MB"
## Enable to get the canonical path as field-name
# canonical_field_names = false
## Remove leading slashes and dots in field-name
# trim_field_names = false
## Guess the path-tag if an update does not contain a prefix-path
## Supported values are
## none -- do not add a 'path' tag
## common path -- use the common path elements of all fields in an update
## subscription -- use the subscription path
# path_guessing_strategy = "none"
## Prefix tags from path keys with the path element
# prefix_tag_key_with_path = false
## Optional client-side TLS to authenticate the device
## Set to true/false to enforce TLS being enabled/disabled. If not set,
## enable TLS only if any of the other options are specified.
# tls_enable =
## Trusted root certificates for server
# tls_ca = "/path/to/cafile"
## Used for TLS client certificate authentication
# tls_cert = "/path/to/certfile"
## Used for TLS client certificate authentication
# tls_key = "/path/to/keyfile"
## Password for the key file if it is encrypted
# tls_key_pwd = ""
## Send the specified TLS server name via SNI
# tls_server_name = "kubernetes.example.com"
## Minimal TLS version to accept by the client
# tls_min_version = "TLS12"
## List of ciphers to accept, by default all secure ciphers will be accepted
## See https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/tls#pkg-constants for supported values.
## Use "all", "secure" and "insecure" to add all support ciphers, secure
## suites or insecure suites respectively.
# tls_cipher_suites = ["secure"]
## Renegotiation method, "never", "once" or "freely"
# tls_renegotiation_method = "never"
## Use TLS but skip chain & host verification
# insecure_skip_verify = false
## gNMI subscription prefix (optional, can usually be left empty)
## See: https://github.com/openconfig/reference/blob/master/rpc/gnmi/gnmi-specification.md#222-paths
# origin = ""
# prefix = ""
# target = ""
## Vendor specific options
## This defines what vendor specific options to load.
## * Juniper Header Extension (juniper_header): some sensors are directly managed by
## Linecard, which adds the Juniper GNMI Header Extension. Enabling this
## allows the decoding of the Extension header if present. Currently this knob
## adds component, component_id & sub_component_id as additional tags
# vendor_specific = []
## YANG model paths for decoding IETF JSON payloads
## Model files are loaded recursively from the given directories. Disabled if
## no models are specified.
# yang_model_paths = []
## Define additional aliases to map encoding paths to measurement names
# [inputs.gnmi.aliases]
# ifcounters = "openconfig:/interfaces/interface/state/counters"
[[inputs.gnmi.subscription]]
## Name of the measurement that will be emitted
name = "ifcounters"
## Origin and path of the subscription
## See: https://github.com/openconfig/reference/blob/master/rpc/gnmi/gnmi-specification.md#222-paths
##
## origin usually refers to a (YANG) data model implemented by the device
## and path to a specific substructure inside it that should be subscribed
## to (similar to an XPath). YANG models can be found e.g. here:
## https://github.com/YangModels/yang/tree/master/vendor/cisco/xr
origin = "openconfig-interfaces"
path = "/interfaces/interface/state/counters"
## Subscription mode ("target_defined", "sample", "on_change") and interval
subscription_mode = "sample"
sample_interval = "10s"
## Suppress redundant transmissions when measured values are unchanged
# suppress_redundant = false
## If suppression is enabled, send updates at least every X seconds anyway
# heartbeat_interval = "60s"
## Tag subscriptions are applied as tags to other subscriptions.
# [[inputs.gnmi.tag_subscription]]
# ## When applying this value as a tag to other metrics, use this tag name
# name = "descr"
#
# ## All other subscription fields are as normal
# origin = "openconfig-interfaces"
# path = "/interfaces/interface/state"
# subscription_mode = "on_change"
#
# ## Match strategy to use for the tag.
# ## Tags are only applied for metrics of the same address. The following
# ## settings are valid:
# ## unconditional -- always match
# ## name -- match by the "name" key
# ## This resembles the previous 'tag-only' behavior.
# ## elements -- match by the keys in the path filtered by the path
# ## parts specified `elements` below
# ## By default, 'elements' is used if the 'elements' option is provided,
# ## otherwise match by 'name'.
# # match = ""
#
# ## For the 'elements' match strategy, at least one path-element name must
# ## be supplied containing at least one key to match on. Multiple path
# ## elements can be specified in any order. All given keys must be equal
# ## for a match.
# # elements = ["description", "interface"]Each configured subscription will emit a different measurement. Each leaf in a GNMI SubscribeResponse Update message will produce a field reading in the measurement. GNMI PathElement keys for leaves will attach tags to the field(s).
ifcounters,path=openconfig-interfaces:/interfaces/interface/state/counters,host=linux,name=MgmtEth0/RP0/CPU0/0,source=10.49.234.115,descr/description=Foo in-multicast-pkts=0i,out-multicast-pkts=0i,out-errors=0i,out-discards=0i,in-broadcast-pkts=0i,out-broadcast-pkts=0i,in-discards=0i,in-unknown-protos=0i,in-errors=0i,out-unicast-pkts=0i,in-octets=0i,out-octets=0i,last-clear="2019-05-22T16:53:21Z",in-unicast-pkts=0i 1559145777425000000
ifcounters,path=openconfig-interfaces:/interfaces/interface/state/counters,host=linux,name=GigabitEthernet0/0/0/0,source=10.49.234.115,descr/description=Bar out-multicast-pkts=0i,out-broadcast-pkts=0i,in-errors=0i,out-errors=0i,in-discards=0i,out-octets=0i,in-unknown-protos=0i,in-unicast-pkts=0i,in-octets=0i,in-multicast-pkts=0i,in-broadcast-pkts=0i,last-clear="2019-05-22T16:54:50Z",out-unicast-pkts=0i,out-discards=0i 1559145777425000000
Some devices (e.g. Juniper) report spurious data with response paths not corresponding to any subscription. In those cases, Telegraf will not be able to determine the metric name for the response and you get an empty metric-name warning
For example if you subscribe to /junos/system/linecard/cpu/memory but the
corresponding response arrives with path
/components/component/properties/property/... To avoid those issues, you can
manually map the response to a metric name using the aliases option like
[[inputs.gnmi]]
addresses = ["..."]
[inputs.gnmi.aliases]
memory = "/components"
[[inputs.gnmi.subscription]]
name = "memory"
origin = "openconfig"
path = "/junos/system/linecard/cpu/memory"
subscription_mode = "sample"
sample_interval = "60s"If this does not solve the issue, please follow the warning instructions and open an issue with the response, your configuration and the metric you expect.
Some devices (e.g. Arista) omit the prefix and specify the path in the update
if there is only one value reported. This leads to a missing path tag for
the resulting metrics. In those cases you should set path_guessing_strategy
to subscription to use the subscription path as path tag.
Other devices might omit the prefix in updates altogether. Here setting
path_guessing_strategy to common path can help to infer the path tag by
using the part of the path that is common to all values in the update.
When receiving an error like
2024-01-01T00:00:00Z E! [inputs.gnmi] Error in plugin: failed to setup subscription: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = "transport: authentication handshake failed: remote error: tls: handshake failure"
this might be due to insecure TLS configurations in the GNMI server. Please
check the minimum TLS version provided by the server as well as the cipher suite
used. You might want to use the tls_min_version or tls_cipher_suites setting
respectively to work-around the issue. Please be careful to not undermine the
security of the connection between the plugin and the device!