Wavefront by VMware

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This component was created and is maintained by an Istio partner. Please address support questions to the partner directly.

Partner	VMware, Inc.
Contact	veniln@vmware.com
Source Code	https://github.com/vmware/wavefront-adapter-for-istio
Latest Release	https://github.com/vmware/wavefront-adapter-for-istio/releases/tag/0.1.1
Tested by VMware, Inc. with these Istio Versions	1.0.3, 1.0.4
Supported Templates	`Metric`

The wavefront adapter collects metrics and makes them available to Wavefront by VMware.

This adapter supports the metric template.

Params

Configuration format for the wavefront adapter.

Field	Type	Description
`direct`	`Params.WavefrontDirect (oneof)`	The credentials for direct ingestion.
`proxy`	`Params.WavefrontProxy (oneof)`	The credentials for ingestion via a Wavefront Proxy.
`flushInterval`	`google.protobuf.Duration`	The metrics flush interval.
`source`	`string`	The source tag for all metrics handled by this adapter.
`prefix`	`string`	The prefix to prepend all metrics handled by the adapter.
`metrics`	`Params.MetricInfo[]`	The set of metrics to publish to Wavefront.

Describes how a metric should be represented on Wavefront.

Field	Type	Description
`name`	`string`	The metric name. (Optional)
`instanceName`	`string`	The fully qualified Istio metric instance name.
`type`	`Params.MetricInfo.Type`	The metric type.
`sample`	`Params.MetricInfo.Sample`	For metrics with type HISTOGRAM, this describes the sample definition.

Describes a sample as in the rcrowley/go-metrics library.

Field	Type	Description
`expDecay`	`Params.MetricInfo.Sample.ExpDecay (oneof)`	Definition of an exponentially decaying sample.
`uniform`	`Params.MetricInfo.Sample.Uniform (oneof)`	Definition of a uniform sample.

Describes an exponentially decaying sample.

Field	Type	Description
`reservoirSize`	`int32`	The reservoir size.
`alpha`	`double`	The alpha.

Describes a uniform sample.

Field	Type	Description
`reservoirSize`	`int32`	The reservoir size.

Describes metric types as in Wavefront.

Name	Description
`UNKNOWN`	Reserved for unknown metric types.
`GAUGE`	Represents a gauge metric type.
`COUNTER`	Represents a counter metric type.
`DELTA_COUNTER`	Represents a delta counter metric type.
`HISTOGRAM`	Represents a histogram metric type.

Describes Wavefront Server credentials.

Field	Type	Description
`server`	`string`	The Wavefront server URL. Ex: https://mydomain.wavefront.com
`token`	`string`	The Wavefront API token.

Describes Wavefront Proxy credentials.

Field	Type	Description
`address`	`string`	The wavefront proxy address. Ex: 192.168.99.100:2878