[[ganglia-component]]
= Ganglia Component
:page-source: components/camel-ganglia/src/main/docs/ganglia-component.adoc

*Available as of Camel version 2.15*

Provides a mechanism to send a value (the message body) as a metric to
the http://ganglia.info[Ganglia] monitoring system.  Uses the gmetric4j
library.  Can be used in conjunction with standard
http://ganglia.info[Ganglia] and
https://github.com/ganglia/jmxetric[JMXetric] for monitoring metrics
from the OS, JVM and business processes through a single platform.

You should have a Ganglia gmond agent running on the machine where your
JVM runs.  The gmond sends a heartbeat to the Ganglia infrastructure,
camel-ganglia can't send the heartbeat itself currently.

On most Linux systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and RHEL/CentOS with EPEL)
you can just install the Ganglia agent package and it runs automatically
using multicast configuration.  You can configure it to use regular UDP
unicast if you prefer.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their `pom.xml`
for this component:

 
[source,xml]
----
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-ganglia</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>
----

== URI format

[source,java]
----
ganglia:address:port[?options]
----

You can append query options to the URI in the following format,
`?option=value&option=value&...`

== Ganglia component and endpoint URI options


// component options: START
The Ganglia component supports 2 options, which are listed below.


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|===
| Name | Description | Default | Type
| *configuration* (advanced) | To use the shared configuration |  | GangliaConfiguration
| *basicPropertyBinding* (advanced) | Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities | false | boolean
|===
// component options: END


// endpoint options: START
The Ganglia endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

----
ganglia:host:port
----

with the following path and query parameters:

=== Path Parameters (2 parameters):


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|===
| Name | Description | Default | Type
| *host* | Host name for Ganglia server | 239.2.11.71 | String
| *port* | Port for Ganglia server | 8649 | int
|===


=== Query Parameters (15 parameters):


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|===
| Name | Description | Default | Type
| *dmax* (producer) | Minumum time in seconds before Ganglia will purge the metric value if it expires. Set to 0 and the value will remain in Ganglia indefinitely until a gmond agent restart. | 0 | int
| *groupName* (producer) | The group that the metric belongs to. | java | String
| *lazyStartProducer* (producer) | Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel's routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. | false | boolean
| *metricName* (producer) | The name to use for the metric. | metric | String
| *mode* (producer) | Send the UDP metric packets using MULTICAST or UNICAST | MULTICAST | UDPAddressingMode
| *prefix* (producer) | Prefix the metric name with this string and an underscore. |  | String
| *slope* (producer) | The slope | BOTH | GMetricSlope
| *spoofHostname* (producer) | Spoofing information IP:hostname |  | String
| *tmax* (producer) | Maximum time in seconds that the value can be considered current. After this, Ganglia considers the value to have expired. | 60 | int
| *ttl* (producer) | If using multicast, set the TTL of the packets | 5 | int
| *type* (producer) | The type of value | STRING | GMetricType
| *units* (producer) | Any unit of measurement that qualifies the metric, e.g. widgets, litres, bytes. Do not include a prefix such as k (kilo) or m (milli), other tools may scale the units later. The value should be unscaled. |  | String
| *wireFormat31x* (producer) | Use the wire format of Ganglia 3.1.0 and later versions. Set this to false to use Ganglia 3.0.x or earlier. | true | boolean
| *basicPropertyBinding* (advanced) | Whether the endpoint should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities | false | boolean
| *synchronous* (advanced) | Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported). | false | boolean
|===
// endpoint options: END
// spring-boot-auto-configure options: START
== Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

[source,xml]
----
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-ganglia-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>
----


The component supports 16 options, which are listed below.


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|===
| Name | Description | Default | Type
| *camel.component.ganglia.basic-property-binding* | Whether the component should use basic property binding (Camel 2.x) or the newer property binding with additional capabilities | false | Boolean
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.dmax* | Minumum time in seconds before Ganglia will purge the metric value if it expires. Set to 0 and the value will remain in Ganglia indefinitely until a gmond agent restart. | 0 | Integer
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.group-name* | The group that the metric belongs to. | java | String
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.host* | Host name for Ganglia server | 239.2.11.71 | String
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.metric-name* | The name to use for the metric. | metric | String
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.mode* | Send the UDP metric packets using MULTICAST or UNICAST |  | GMetric$UDPAddressingMode
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.port* | Port for Ganglia server | 8649 | Integer
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.prefix* | Prefix the metric name with this string and an underscore. |  | String
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.slope* | The slope |  | GMetricSlope
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.spoof-hostname* | Spoofing information IP:hostname |  | String
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.tmax* | Maximum time in seconds that the value can be considered current. After this, Ganglia considers the value to have expired. | 60 | Integer
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.ttl* | If using multicast, set the TTL of the packets | 5 | Integer
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.type* | The type of value |  | GMetricType
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.units* | Any unit of measurement that qualifies the metric, e.g. widgets, litres, bytes. Do not include a prefix such as k (kilo) or m (milli), other tools may scale the units later. The value should be unscaled. |  | String
| *camel.component.ganglia.configuration.wire-format31x* | Use the wire format of Ganglia 3.1.0 and later versions. Set this to false to use Ganglia 3.0.x or earlier. | true | Boolean
| *camel.component.ganglia.enabled* | Enable ganglia component | true | Boolean
|===
// spring-boot-auto-configure options: END


== Message body

Any value (such as a string or numeric type) in the body is sent to the
Ganglia system.

== Return value / response

Ganglia sends metrics using unidirectional UDP or multicast.  There is
no response or change to the message body.

== Examples

=== Sending a String metric

The message body will be converted to a String and sent as a metric
value.  Unlike numeric metrics, String values can't be charted but
Ganglia makes them available for reporting.  The os_version string at
the top of every Ganglia host page is an example of a String metric.

[source,java]
----
from("direct:string.for.ganglia")
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_NAME, simple("my_string_metric"))
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_TYPE, GMetricType.STRING)
    .to("direct:ganglia.tx");

from("direct:ganglia.tx")
    .to("ganglia:239.2.11.71:8649?mode=MULTICAST&prefix=test");
----

=== Sending a numeric metric

[source,java]
----
from("direct:value.for.ganglia")
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_NAME, simple("widgets_in_stock"))
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_TYPE, GMetricType.UINT32)
    .setHeader(GangliaConstants.METRIC_UNITS, simple("widgets"))
    .to("direct:ganglia.tx");

from("direct:ganglia.tx")
    .to("ganglia:239.2.11.71:8649?mode=MULTICAST&prefix=test");
----