host-filesystem datasource

The host-filesystem datasource collects information about file systems from the operating system and creates entities and metric data points.

Metrics

Name	Units	Description
filesystem.free	blocks	Available storage blocks
filesystem.inodes_free	inodes	Available inodes
filesystem.inodes_total	inodes	Total inodes
filesystem.inodes_used	inodes	Used inodes
filesystem.inodes_utilization	percent	inode utilization
filesystem.used	blocks	Used storage blocks
filesystem.utilization	percent	Overall utilization

Name styles

This datasource supports two mutually exclusive naming styles for the metrics it collects:

• canonical — The default style, which features namespace prefixes.
• linuxMonitorZenPack — The legacy style, used in the Linux Monitor ZenPack.

To change the default, set the metric-names-variant property in the datasource section to linuxMonitorZenPack.

Canonical style	ZenPack style
filesystem.free	disk_availBlocks
filesystem.used	disk_usedBlocks
filesystem.utilization	disk_percentUsed
filesystem.inodes_total	idisk_totalInodes
filesystem.inodes_free	idisk_availableInodes
filesystem.inodes_used	disk_usedInodes
filesystem.inodes_utilization	idisk_percentInodesUsed

Entities

Property	Description
name	File system mount point
capacityBytes	File system size, in bytes
mount	File system mount point
mode	File system read/write mode
storageDevice	File system physical storage drive
type	File system type

Example

{
  "capacityBytes": "28926365696",
  "mode": "rw",
  "mount": "/dev",
  "name": "/dev",
  "storageDevice": "devtmpfs",
  "type": "devtmpfs"
}

Configuration

If you specify the host-filesystem datasource during installation, its configuration file is placed in the following location:

/etc/zendatamon-configs/configs/host-filesystem.config.yaml

Otherwise, you must copy it from the templates directory:

cp /etc/zendatamon-configs/.templates/.configs/host-filesystem.config.yaml \
  /etc/zendatamon-configs/configs/host-filesystem.config.yaml

The Zenoss Data Monitor service monitors the /etc/zendatamon-configs/configs directory and loads any new or changed configuration files immediately.

Properties

interval (number)

The number of seconds to wait between collection attempts. This value overrides the defaultInterval value in the Zenoss Data Monitor service configuration file.

timeout (number)

The number of seconds to wait before dropping a collection attempt.

metric-names-variant (string, default = canonical)

The metric name style, either canonical or linuxMonitorZenPack.

protocol (string, default = local)

Collection type; only local is supported, so this key can be omitted.

ignore-names (array)

A list of regular expressions that identify a set of file system not to collect. If empty or omitted, all file systems collected.

ignore-types (array)

A list of file system types to skip during collection. If empty or omitted, all file systems types are collected.

Example

apiVersion: v1
kind: datasource
name: host-filesystem
spec:
  type: host-filesystem
  datasource:
    interval: 60
    timeout: 30
    metric-names-variant: canonical
    protocol: ""
    ignore-names: ""
    ignore-types:
      - other
      - ram
      - virtualMemory
      - removableDisk
      - floppyDisk
      - compactDisk
      - ramDisk
      - flashMemory
      - networkDisk

ZenPack compatibility

For compatibility with the Linux Monitor ZenPack, use the action service to create a metric trigger (and accompanying destination and rule) for filesystem.utilization data points that are greater than 90%.