sprockets-influxdb/docs/api.rst
Gavin M. Roy ac7d886f11 Add some controls for operational tuning
- Add a flag to disable submission
- Add more environment variables for configuration
- Add a maximum buffer size that discards metrics when there are too many
- Remove correlation-id fields
2016-10-13 18:52:17 -04:00

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Sprockets InfluxDB API
======================
To use the InfluxDB client, you need to install it into the runtime environment.
To do so, you use the :meth:`~sprockets_influxdb.install` method. Then metrics
can be added by creating instances of the :class:`~sprockets_influxdb.Measurement`
class and then adding them to the write buffer by calling
:meth:`~sprockets_influxdb.add_measurement`. In the following example, a measurement
is added to the ``example`` InfluxDB database with the measurement name of
``measurement-name``. When the IOLoop is started, the ``stop`` method is invoked
which calls :meth:`~sprockets_influxdb.shutdown`. :meth:`~sprockets_influxdb.shutdown`
ensures that all of the buffered metrics are written before the IOLoop is stopped.
.. code:: python
import logging
import sprockets_influxdb as influxdb
from tornado import ioloop
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
io_loop = ioloop.IOLoop.current()
influxdb.install(io_loop=io_loop)
measurement = influxdb.Measurement('example', 'measurement-name')
measurement.set_tag('foo', 'bar')
measurement.set_field('baz', 1.05)
influxdb.add_measurement(measurement)
def stop():
influxdb.shutdown()
io_loop.stop()
io_loop.add_callback(stop)
io_loop.start()
If you are writing a Tornado web application, you can automatically instrument
all of your Request Handlers by adding the :class:`~sprockets_influxdb.InfluxDBMixin`:
.. code:: python
import logging
import os
import sprockets_influxdb as influxdb
from tornado import ioloop, web
class RequestHandler(influxdb.InfluxDBMixin,
web.RequestHandler):
def get(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.write({'hello': 'world'})
if __name__ == '__main__':
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
os.environ['ENVIRONMENT'] = 'development'
os.environ['SERVICE'] = 'example'
io_loop = ioloop.IOLoop.current()
application = web.Application([
(r"/", RequestHandler),
], **{influxdb.REQUEST_DATABASE: 'example'})
application.listen(8888)
influxdb.install(io_loop=io_loop)
try:
io_loop.start()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
logging.info('Stopping')
influxdb.shutdown()
io_loop.stop()
logging.info('Stopped')
Core Methods
------------
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.install
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.add_measurement
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.shutdown
Measurement Class
-----------------
.. autoclass:: sprockets_influxdb.Measurement
:members:
Configuration Methods
---------------------
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.set_auth_credentials
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.set_base_url
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.set_io_loop
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.set_max_batch_size
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.set_max_buffer_size
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.set_clients
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.set_submission_interval
Request Handler Mixin
---------------------
.. autoclass:: sprockets_influxdb.InfluxDBMixin
:members:
Other
-----
.. autofunction:: sprockets_influxdb.flush