Cacti integration

Install the infrastructure agent

To use the Cacti integration, you need to first install the infrastructure agent on the same host.

Expose Cacti metrics

Complete the steps below to expose your RRD data in either a CSV or JSON format:

1. Export data from Cacti's RRD files into the XML format using RRDTool.
2. Convert the XML data into a CSV or JSON format.

Use NRI-Flex to capture CSV format metrics

Flex comes bundled with the New Relic infrastructure agent. You need to configure NRI-Flex for Cacti and create a flex configuration file. Follow these steps:

1. Create a file named cacti-config.yml in the /newrelic-infra/integrations.d path.

2. Update the cacti-config.yml with the following configuration example:

   ---
   integrations:
     - name: nri-flex
       config:
         name: machineLoad
         apis:
          - name: machineLoad
            file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_load_1min_2.csv
          - name: memSwap
            file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_mem_swap_5.csv
          - name: proc
            file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_proc_1.csv
          - name: machineUser
            file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_users_3.csv
          - name: memBuffers
            file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_mem_buffers_4.csv
          - name: ApacheCpuLoad
            file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_apache_cpuload_6.csv
          - name: ApacheTotalHits
            file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_apache_total_hits_7.csv
          - name: ApacheTotalKbytes
            file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_apache_total_kbytes_8.csv
          - name: UserLogins
            file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_active_10.csv

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Forward Cacti logs

Follow these steps to forward Cacti logs to New Relic:

1. Edit the log file named logging.yml located at the following path:

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   $
   cd /etc/newrelic-infra/logging.d

2. Add the following snippet to the logging.yml file. Replace file with your Cacti log file path if needed:

   logs:
     - name: cacti.log
       file: /var/www/html/cacti/log/LOG_FILE_NAME
       attributes:
         logtype: cacti_log

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Restart the New Relic infrastructure agent

Restart your infrastructure agent:

$
sudo systemctl restart newrelic-infra.service

Your application will send metrics to one.newrelic.com in a few minutes.

Find your data

You can use our pre-built dashboard template to monitor your Cacti application metrics. Follow these steps to use our pre-built dashboard template:

1. From one.newrelic.com, go to the + Integrations & Agents page

2. Click on Dashboards

3. In the search bar, type Cacti

4. The Cacti dashboard should appear. Click on it to install it

   Your Cacti dashboard is considered a custom dashboard and can be found in the Dashboards UI. For docs on using and editing dashboards, see our dashboard docs.

   Here is an example NRQL query to view the count of the user login :

   SELECT latest(value) FROM UserLoginsSample FACET name

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