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CouchDB

Collect metrics from CouchDB with Elastic Agent.

Version
1.1.0 (View all)
Compatible Kibana version(s)
8.8.0 or higher
Supported Serverless project types

Security
Observability
Subscription level
Basic
Level of support
Elastic

This Elastic integration collects and parses the Server metrics from CouchDB so that the user could monitor and troubleshoot the performance of the CouchDB instances.

This integration uses http metricbeat module to collect above metrics.

Compatibility

This integration has been tested against CouchDB version 3.1 and CouchDB version 3.2.2.

Requirements

In order to ingest data from CouchDB, you must know the host(s) and the administrator credentials for the CouchDB instance(s).

Host Configuration Format: http[s]://username:password@host:port

Example Host Configuration: http://admin:changeme@localhost:5984

Metrics

Server

This is the server data stream.

Reference: https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/api/server/common.html#node-node-name-stats

An example event for server looks as following:

{
    "@timestamp": "2022-07-13T07:21:10.000Z",
    "agent": {
        "ephemeral_id": "389401b4-5960-4cd8-a207-033a7e3c5a54",
        "id": "1f5b14b7-019a-4625-85ab-1b51ea6c08e5",
        "name": "docker-fleet-agent",
        "type": "metricbeat",
        "version": "8.3.2"
    },
    "couchdb": {
        "server": {
            "auth_cache": {
                "hits": 0,
                "misses": 0
            },
            "database": {
                "open": 0,
                "reads": 0,
                "writes": 0
            },
            "httpd": {
                "clients_requesting_changes": 0,
                "request_methods": {
                    "copy": 0,
                    "delete": 0,
                    "get": 1,
                    "head": 0,
                    "post": 0,
                    "put": 0
                },
                "requests": {
                    "bulk": 0,
                    "count": 1
                },
                "status_codes": {
                    "200": 1,
                    "201": 0,
                    "202": 0,
                    "301": 0,
                    "304": 0,
                    "400": 0,
                    "401": 0,
                    "403": 0,
                    "404": 0,
                    "405": 0,
                    "409": 0,
                    "412": 0,
                    "500": 0
                },
                "view_reads": {
                    "count": 0,
                    "temporary": 0
                }
            },
            "open_os_files": 0,
            "request_time": {
                "avg": 0
            }
        }
    },
    "data_stream": {
        "dataset": "couchdb.server",
        "namespace": "ep",
        "type": "metrics"
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "8.5.1"
    },
    "elastic_agent": {
        "id": "1f5b14b7-019a-4625-85ab-1b51ea6c08e5",
        "snapshot": false,
        "version": "8.3.2"
    },
    "event": {
        "agent_id_status": "verified",
        "category": [
            "database"
        ],
        "dataset": "couchdb.server",
        "duration": 6178377,
        "ingested": "2022-07-13T07:21:14Z",
        "kind": "metric",
        "module": "couchdb",
        "type": [
            "info"
        ]
    },
    "host": {
        "architecture": "x86_64",
        "containerized": true,
        "hostname": "docker-fleet-agent",
        "ip": [
            "172.18.0.7"
        ],
        "mac": [
            "02:42:ac:12:00:07"
        ],
        "name": "docker-fleet-agent",
        "os": {
            "codename": "focal",
            "family": "debian",
            "kernel": "3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64",
            "name": "Ubuntu",
            "platform": "ubuntu",
            "type": "linux",
            "version": "20.04.4 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
        }
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "json",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "address": "http://elastic-package-service_couchdb_1:5984/_node/_local/_stats",
        "type": "http"
    },
    "tags": [
        "couchdb-server"
    ]
}

Exported fields

FieldDescriptionTypeUnitMetric Type
@timestamp
Event timestamp.
date
agent.id
Unique identifier of this agent (if one exists). Example: For Beats this would be beat.id.
keyword
cloud.account.id
The cloud account or organization id used to identify different entities in a multi-tenant environment. Examples: AWS account id, Google Cloud ORG Id, or other unique identifier.
keyword
cloud.availability_zone
Availability zone in which this host, resource, or service is located.
keyword
cloud.instance.id
Instance ID of the host machine.
keyword
cloud.provider
Name of the cloud provider. Example values are aws, azure, gcp, or digitalocean.
keyword
cloud.region
Region in which this host, resource, or service is located.
keyword
container.id
Unique container id.
keyword
couchdb.server.auth_cache.hits
Number of authentication cache hits.
long
counter
couchdb.server.auth_cache.misses
Number of authentication cache misses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.database.open
Number of open databases.
long
counter
couchdb.server.database.reads
Number of times a document was read from a database.
long
counter
couchdb.server.database.writes
Number of times a database was changed.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.clients_requesting_changes
Number of clients for continuous changes.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.request_methods.copy
Number of HTTP COPY requests.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.request_methods.delete
Number of HTTP DELETE requests.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.request_methods.get
Number of HTTP GET requests.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.request_methods.head
Number of HTTP HEAD requests.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.request_methods.post
Number of HTTP POST requests.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.request_methods.put
Number of HTTP PUT requests.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.requests.bulk
Number of bulk requests.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.requests.count
Number of HTTP requests.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.200
Number of HTTP 200 OK responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.201
Number of HTTP 201 Created responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.202
Number of HTTP 202 Accepted responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.301
Number of HTTP 301 Moved Permanently responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.304
Number of HTTP 304 Not Modified responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.400
Number of HTTP 400 Bad Request responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.401
Number of HTTP 401 Unauthorized responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.403
Number of HTTP 403 Forbidden responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.404
Number of HTTP 404 Not Found responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.405
Number of HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.409
Number of HTTP 409 Conflict responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.412
Number of HTTP 412 Precondition Failed responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.status_codes.500
Number of HTTP 500 Internal Server Error responses.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.view_reads.count
Number of view reads.
long
counter
couchdb.server.httpd.view_reads.temporary
Number of temporary view reads.
long
counter
couchdb.server.open_os_files
Number of file descriptors CouchDB has open.
long
counter
couchdb.server.request_time.avg
Arithmetic mean of the request time inside CouchDB.
float
s
data_stream.dataset
Data stream dataset.
constant_keyword
data_stream.namespace
Data stream namespace.
constant_keyword
data_stream.type
Data stream type.
constant_keyword
ecs.version
ECS version this event conforms to. ecs.version is a required field and must exist in all events. When querying across multiple indices -- which may conform to slightly different ECS versions -- this field lets integrations adjust to the schema version of the events.
keyword
error.message
Error message.
match_only_text
event.category
This is one of four ECS Categorization Fields, and indicates the second level in the ECS category hierarchy. event.category represents the "big buckets" of ECS categories. For example, filtering on event.category:process yields all events relating to process activity. This field is closely related to event.type, which is used as a subcategory. This field is an array. This will allow proper categorization of some events that fall in multiple categories.
keyword
event.dataset
Name of the dataset. If an event source publishes more than one type of log or events (e.g. access log, error log), the dataset is used to specify which one the event comes from. It's recommended but not required to start the dataset name with the module name, followed by a dot, then the dataset name.
keyword
event.ingested
Timestamp when an event arrived in the central data store. This is different from @timestamp, which is when the event originally occurred. It's also different from event.created, which is meant to capture the first time an agent saw the event. In normal conditions, assuming no tampering, the timestamps should chronologically look like this: @timestamp < event.created < event.ingested.
date
event.kind
This is one of four ECS Categorization Fields, and indicates the highest level in the ECS category hierarchy. event.kind gives high-level information about what type of information the event contains, without being specific to the contents of the event. For example, values of this field distinguish alert events from metric events. The value of this field can be used to inform how these kinds of events should be handled. They may warrant different retention, different access control, it may also help understand whether the data coming in at a regular interval or not.
keyword
event.module
Name of the module this data is coming from. If your monitoring agent supports the concept of modules or plugins to process events of a given source (e.g. Apache logs), event.module should contain the name of this module.
keyword
event.type
This is one of four ECS Categorization Fields, and indicates the third level in the ECS category hierarchy. event.type represents a categorization "sub-bucket" that, when used along with the event.category field values, enables filtering events down to a level appropriate for single visualization. This field is an array. This will allow proper categorization of some events that fall in multiple event types.
keyword
host.ip
Host ip addresses.
ip
host.name
Name of the host. It can contain what hostname returns on Unix systems, the fully qualified domain name, or a name specified by the user. The sender decides which value to use.
keyword
service.address
Address where data about this service was collected from. This should be a URI, network address (ipv4:port or [ipv6]:port) or a resource path (sockets).
keyword
service.type
The type of the service data is collected from. The type can be used to group and correlate logs and metrics from one service type. Example: If logs or metrics are collected from Elasticsearch, service.type would be elasticsearch.
keyword
tags
List of keywords used to tag each event.
keyword

Changelog

VersionDetailsKibana version(s)

1.1.0

Enhancement View pull request
Update the package format_version to 3.0.0.

8.8.0 or higher

1.0.1

Bug fix View pull request
Remove forwarded tag from metrics data stream.

8.8.0 or higher

1.0.0

Enhancement View pull request
Make CouchDB GA.

8.8.0 or higher

0.7.1

Bug fix View pull request
Resolve the conflicts in host.ip field.

0.7.0

Enhancement View pull request
Enable time series data streams for the metrics datasets. This dramatically reduces storage for metrics and is expected to progressively improve query performance. For more details, see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tsds.html.

0.6.0

Enhancement View pull request
Rename ownership from obs-service-integrations to obs-infraobs-integrations

0.5.1

Bug fix View pull request
Modifed the dimension field mapping to support public cloud deployment.

0.5.0

Enhancement View pull request
Adding dimension fileds to server datastream for TSDB enablement.

0.4.0

Enhancement View pull request
Migrate visualizations to lens.

0.3.1

Enhancement View pull request
Added categories and/or subcategories.

0.3.0

Enhancement View pull request
Update ECS version to 8.5.1

0.2.0

Enhancement View pull request
Added infrastructure category.

0.1.0

Enhancement View pull request
CouchDB integration package with "server" data stream

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