resotometrics 3.9.0

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resotometrics 3.9.0

resotometrics
Resoto Prometheus exporter
Table of contents

Overview
Usage
Details

Example
Taking it one step further


Contact
License

Overview
resotometrics takes resotocore graph data and runs aggregation functions on it. Those aggregated metrics
are then exposed in a Prometheus compatible format. The default TCP port is 9955 but
can be changed using the resotometrics.web_port config attribute.
More information can be found below and in the docs.
Usage
resotometrics uses the following commandline arguments:
--subscriber-id SUBSCRIBER_ID
Unique subscriber ID (default: resoto.metrics)
--override CONFIG_OVERRIDE [CONFIG_OVERRIDE ...]
Override config attribute(s)
--resotocore-uri RESOTOCORE_URI
resotocore URI (default: https://localhost:8900)
--verbose, -v Verbose logging
--quiet Only log errors
--psk PSK Pre-shared key
--ca-cert CA_CERT Path to custom CA certificate file
--cert CERT Path to custom certificate file
--cert-key CERT_KEY Path to custom certificate key file
--cert-key-pass CERT_KEY_PASS
Passphrase for certificate key file
--no-verify-certs Turn off certificate verification

ENV Prefix: RESOTOMETRICS_
Every CLI arg can also be specified using ENV variables.
For instance the boolean --verbose would become RESOTOMETRICS_VERBOSE=true.
Once started resotometrics will register for generate_metrics core events. When such an event is received it will
generate Resoto metrics and provide them at the /metrics endpoint.
A prometheus config could look like this:
scrape_configs:
- job_name: "resotometrics"
static_configs:
- targets: ["localhost:9955"]

Details
Resoto core supports aggregated queries to produce metrics. Our common library resotolib define a number of base resources that are common to a lot of cloud proviers, like say compute instances, subnets, routers, load balancers, and so on. All of those ship with a standard set of metrics specific to each resource.
For example, instances have CPU cores and memory, so they define default metrics for those attributes. Right now metrics are hard coded and read from the base resources, but future versions of Resoto will allow you to define your own metrics in resotocore and have resotometrics export them.
For right now you can use the aggregate API at {resotocore}:8900/graph/{graph}/reported/search/aggregate or the aggregate CLI command to generate your own metrics. For API details check out the resotocore API documentation as well as the Swagger UI at {resotocore}:8900/api-doc/.
In the following we will be using the Resoto shell resh and the aggregate command.
Example
Enter the following commands into resh
search is(instance) | aggregate /ancestors.cloud.reported.name as cloud, /ancestors.account.reported.name as account, /ancestors.region.reported.name as region, instance_type as type : sum(1) as instances_total, sum(instance_cores) as cores_total, sum(instance_memory*1024*1024*1024) as memory_bytes

Here is the same query with line feeds for readability (can not be copy'pasted)
search is(instance) |
aggregate
/ancestors.cloud.reported.name as cloud,
/ancestors.account.reported.name as account,
/ancestors.region.reported.name as region,
instance_type as type :
sum(1) as instances_total,
sum(instance_cores) as cores_total,
sum(instance_memory*1024*1024*1024) as memory_bytes

If your graph contains any compute instances the resulting output will look something like this
---
group:
cloud: aws
account: someengineering-platform
region: us-west-2
type: m5.2xlarge
instances_total: 6
cores_total: 24
memory_bytes: 96636764160
---
group:
cloud: aws
account: someengineering-platform
region: us-west-2
type: m5.xlarge
instances_total: 8
cores_total: 64
memory_bytes: 257698037760
---
group:
cloud: gcp
account: someengineering-dev
region: us-west1
type: n1-standard-4
instances_total: 12
cores_total: 48
memory_bytes: 193273528320

Let us dissect what we've written here:

search is(instance) fetch all the resources that inherit from base kind instance. This would be compute instances like aws_ec2_instance or gcp_instance.
aggregate /ancestors.cloud.reported.name as cloud, /ancestors.account.reported.name as account, /ancestors.region.reported.name as region, instance_type as type aggregate the instance metrics by cloud, account, and region name as well as instance_type (think GROUP_BY in SQL).
sum(1) as instances_total, sum(instance_cores) as cores_total, sum(instance_memory*1024*1024*1024) as memory_bytes sum up the total number of instances, number of instance cores and memory. The later is stored in GB and here we convert it to bytes as is customary in Prometheus exporters.

Taking it one step further
search is(instance) and instance_status = running | aggregate /ancestors.cloud.reported.name as cloud, /ancestors.account.reported.name as account, /ancestors.region.reported.name as region, instance_type as type : sum(/ancestors.instance_type.reported.ondemand_cost) as instances_hourly_cost_estimate

Again the same query with line feeds for readability (can not be copy'pasted)
search is(instance) and instance_status = running |
aggregate
/ancestors.cloud.reported.name as cloud,
/ancestors.account.reported.name as account,
/ancestors.region.reported.name as region,
instance_type as type :
sum(/ancestors.instance_type.reported.ondemand_cost) as instances_hourly_cost_estimate

Outputs something like
---
group:
cloud: gcp
account: maestro-229419
region: us-central1
type: n1-standard-4
instances_hourly_cost_estimate: 0.949995

What did we do here? We told Resoto to find all resource of type compute instance (search is(instance)) with a status of running and then merge the result with ancestors (parents and parent parents) of type cloud, account, region and now also instance_type.
Let us look at two things here. First, in the previous example we already aggregated by instance_type. However this was the string attribute called instance_type that is part of every instance resource and contains strings like m5.xlarge (AWS) or n1-standard-4 (GCP).
Example
> search is(instance) | tail -1 | format {kind} {name} {instance_type}
aws_ec2_instance i-039e06bb2539e5484 t2.micro

What we did now was ask Resoto to go up the graph and find the directly connected resource of kind instance_type.
An instance_type resource looks something like this
> search is(instance_type) | tail -1 | dump
reported:
kind: aws_ec2_instance_type
id: t2.micro
tags: {}
name: t2.micro
instance_type: t2.micro
instance_cores: 1
instance_memory: 1
ondemand_cost: 0.0116
ctime: '2021-09-28T13:10:08Z'

As you can see, the instance type resource has a float attribute called ondemand_cost which is the hourly cost a cloud provider charges for this particular type of compute instance. In our aggregation query we now sum up the hourly cost of all currently running compute instances and export them as a metric named instances_hourly_cost_estimate. If we now export this metric into a timeseries DB like Prometheus we are able to plot our instance cost over time.
This is the core functionality resotometrics provides.
Contact
If you have any questions feel free to join our Discord or open a GitHub issue.
License
See LICENSE for details.