How to you gather non snmp Telemetry Data

Hi Silvan,

How are you running telegraf.exec? I assume you are running it either as a daemon or from bash, can you provide an example? Did you compile it with GOOS=linux and GOARCH=386 ? In what namespace is telegraf trying to communicate with ConfigAgent?

We have our streaming telemetry agent called TerminAttr which can stream the full state of our switches to CloudVision Portal (CVP) via gRPC and are presented in nice pre-built graphs and tables on the UI. You can check the overview here: https://www.arista.com/en/products/eos/eos-cloudvision

TerminAttr can also be used to stream to 3rd party systems like InfluxDB, Prometheus, ELK, etc. using an openconfig connector that can talk to TerminAttr (subscribe to internal states on the switches) and serve those data in a schema that those 3rd party systems understand. We have a few proof-of-concept adapters published on our github page: https://github.com/aristanetworks/goarista/tree/master/cmd

The flow would be something like the following:
-TerminAttr gets all states from all agents on the switch
-the oc* connector subscribes to specific paths by talking to TerminAttr
-the oc* connector sends data to the Open-Source Telemetry system

For InfluxDB you could use octsdb along with TerminAttr: https://github.com/aristanetworks/goarista/tree/master/cmd/octsdb

For more info about subscription paths you might find this article useful: https://eos.arista.com/understanding-subscription-paths-for-open-source-telemetry-streaming/

storm-control data can be found in /Sysdb/bridging/stormcontrol/status/slice//intfStatus/EthernetX

for example on a 7160 this would be the path for Ethernet24

[admin@xpswitch ~]$ curl localhost:6060/rest/Sysdb/bridging/stormcontrol/status/slice/xp/intfStatus/Ethernet24
{
"allDrop": 0,
"allLevel": {
"level": 9000,
"type": "percentage"
},
"allRate": 22500,
"broadcastDrop": 0,
"broadcastLevel": {
"level": 10000,
"type": "percentage"
},
"broadcastRate": 25000,
"multicastDrop": 0,
"multicastLevel": {
"level": 10000,
"type": "percentage"
},
"multicastRate": 25000,
"name": "Ethernet24",
"uucastDrop": 0,
"uucastLevel": {
"level": 10000,
"type": "percentage"
},
"uucastRate": 25000
}

Hope this helps!
Tamas

Hi Tamas,

0o, Great to have such a quit and rich answer from you!

i've started as a daemon with systemctl, with the Linux Binaries (32-bit) & systemd script from influxdata.com/download.

it's pre compiled but linux 32-bit, it's currently running in namespace ns-mgmt

it's quite a hack but works for snmp and was straight forward to implement.

Your Solution with TerminAttr looks very rich!

TerminAttr works, next step is oc config.

thank you for all your links and your time!

silvan