TICKStack.Monitoring.QuickStart (2019)

A Console Application to collect measures for TICK Stack.

Folder Organization

| -- .env                                     -> Environment variables configuration
| -- docker-compose.yml                       -> Docker
| -- launch.bat                               -> The launcher of the project

| -- /chronograf/                             -> Configuration files for TICK Stack + data storage
| -- /influxdb/
      | -- Config
            |-- influxdb.conf
| --/kapacitor/
      | -- /Config/
            |-- kapacitor.conf
| --/telegraf/
      | -- telegraf.conf

| --/TICKStack.Monitoring.QuickStart/
      | -- Dockerfile                         -> Docker

      | -- App.config                         -> A configuration file to configure influxdb stuff.
      | -- Program.cs                         -> Entry point of the application

      | -- /Jobs/
            | -- AbstractMonitoringJob.cs      -> common abstract class
            | -- HealthMonitoringJob.cs        -> Job "Health" inserts entries in influxdb database "health"
            | -- IJob.cs                       -> Job Interface
            | -- PriceMonitoringJob.cs         -> Job "Price" inserts entries in influxdb database "price"

Launch the Docker version

Start the dockerized version

You can configure some environment variables in the .env file. At the root of the solution, run the command :

launch.bat up

It will docker-compose to run the TICK Stack and the C# console application, It will open chronograf in a browser.

At first time launching chronograf, you will need to configure connexion to influxdb and kapacitor using the hostname:port 'influxdb:8086" + "kapacitor:9092" (docker urls) instead of "localhost".

Stop the dockerized version

launch.bat down

Connect to influxdb client to execute some queries

launch.bat influxdb

Delete all data created by the TICK Stack

launch.bat delete-data

Custom notes for Docker

Build image for docker hub

In the root directory (at the root directory level):

docker build -t danmgs/tickstack-monitoring-console -f TICKStack.Monitoring.QuickStart/Dockerfile .
docker push danmgs/tickstack-monitoring-console:latest

Pull image from docker hub

You can find the docker image my repository on DockerHub.

Note : This way, instead of building the image, you are able to configure docker-compose.yml to pull the image like so:

  tickstack-monitoring-console:
    image: danmgs/tickstack-monitoring-console:latest
    environment:
      INFLUXDB_URL: $ENV_INFLUXDB_URL
      INFLUXDB_DATABASE_NAME: $ENV_INFLUXDB_DATABASE_NAME
      WRITE_INTERVAL_IN_SECONDS: $ENV_WRITE_INTERVAL_IN_SECONDS
    links:
      - influxdb
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - kapacitor
      - influxdb
      - telegraf

Create the influxdb database

Database "price"

You will need to create the database in order to the console to store the datapoint.

You can create the database via Chronograf admin interface or via influxdb cli.

• Create database in influxdb with retention days (by default infinite)

CREATE DATABASE "price"
CREATE RETENTION POLICY "seven_days" ON "price" DURATION 7d REPLICATION 1 DEFAULT

Launch the console locally

Configure the C# console application to run and/or debug locally

Configure the app.config with the influxdb url, time interval, and database name :

<add key="WRITE_INTERVAL_IN_SECONDS" value="2"/>
<add key="INFLUXDB_URL" value="http://localhost:8086"/>
<add key="INFLUXDB_DATABASE_NAME" value="price"/>