Overview

Lumino Agent Collectors receive incoming data and convert it into a format that is ready to be written into its backing time series data store such as Influx, in the form of time series data points. 

Collector Output Format

Collector output format is closely based on InfluxDB Key Concepts, though more abstract, as Lumino may support other solutions for storage.

The Collector converts input messages into time series based point data. 

Point data comprises:

• Retention policy name
• Measurement name - the type of measurement, such as 'system.disk' which shows various data on disk health
• A number of tags used as a filter for querying (usually a string), such as the hostname that sent data, XVM name, etc.
• A number of fields that contain actual data, such as disk total space, disk free space etc.
• The current point timestamp.

Collectors

The following sections describe the collectors bundled with Lumino. In future releases of Lumino, we plan to generalize the collector framework to allow end users to plug in their own collectors that can be hosted in a Lumino Agent. Let us know if this is a feature of interest to you ... we'd love to hear your thoughts on any features you'd like to see in such a framework. 

Built-In Collectors

XVM Heartbeat Collector

The XVM Heartbeat Collector listens for XVM heartbeats from discovered XVMs and extracts the stats from each heartbeat into point series data. XVM heartbeats contain a wealth of information about each XVM and the applications it hosts. This section describes how XVM heartbeats are collected and converted to time series data.

XVM Trace Collector

The XVM Trace Collector receives trace messages from discovered XVMs and writes them as point data into the backing time series database (Influx). Collected trace records can then be viewed using the Trace Log Panel when placed in a dashboard.