Wavefront cloud-foundry-nozzle (Retired)

Wavefront Nozzle for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). The nozzle is deployed as an app in PCF as part of the Wavefront by VMware Nozzle for PCF.

The nozzle gathers data from the Loggregator Firehose and forwards those metrics to the Wavefront proxy.

Note: This nozzle has been replaced with cloud-foundry-nozzle-go.

Requirements

• A working Wavefront proxy with accessible <hostname:port>.
• A working PCF deployment with access to pcf.host and a UAA user authorized to access the loggregator firehose.
• Java >= 1.8
• Maven

Manually configure and deploy the nozzle

1. git clone github.com/wavefrontHQ/cloud-foundry-nozzle
2. Build the source code to generate the JAR under target/wavefront-nozzle-<version>-SNAPSHOT.jar:

   mvn clean install -DskipTests
   

3. Copy the above jar and the manifest.yml file to a temporary directory
4. Update the following properties in the manifest file:
   • path: The path to the wavefront-nozzle jar under the temporary directory
   • pcf.host: Enter the PCF FQDN
   • pcf.user: PCF UAA user authorized to access the loggregator firehose
   • pcf.password: PCF UAA user password
   • pcf.skipSslValidation: true to skip SSL validation.
   • pcf.firehose.eventTypes: Enter the event types desired. Currently supported: COUNTER_EVENT, VALUE_METRIC, CONTAINER_METRIC
   • pcf.firehose.parallelism: Optional - Change if needed
   • wavefront.proxy.hostname: Enter the hostname or IP address of the Wavefront proxy
   • wavefront.proxy.port: 2878
5. cd into the directory where you have the jar and manifest.yml and run: cf push
6. Verify the app is running by monitoring the log file - cf logs wavefront-firehose-nozzle

Running the nozzle locally

If you don't wish to deploy the wavefront-nozzle to a PCF instance, you can run/debug it locally on your dev machine.

To run locally, you don't need the manifest file. Just update src/main/resources/application.properties with the same values as in the manifest file and run the application.

Note - The nozzle will not run locally if you have an invalid application.properties.