influxdata/telegraf

netstat to collect tcp connections per port

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#9,348 opened on Jun 9, 2021

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Description

Feature Request

Proposal:

I'd like to see implemented the netstat plugin to collect the connection states per port that the system/a service listens on, just like the TCPConns plugin of collectd

Current behavior:

The netstat plugin only gathers the amount of state types.

Desired behavior:

The netstat plugin gathers amount of state types per port.

Use case:

Currently we're using the collectd plugin to show us how much connections each of our dovecot backend nodes is handling. We'd like to replace this with Telegraf.

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Research direction
Study existing Telegraf input plugins, particularly those that parse command output. Look at the netstat command output format and design a parser to extract per port connection states. Follow Telegraf plugin development guide to create a new plugin.
Tech stack
go
Domain
backend
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Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Clear
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GoLinux command line
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65