Kafka和InfluxDB集成

随着物联网的广泛应用，时序数据库在软件开发中越来越多的被采用，而InfluxDB作为市场排名第一的时序数据库，基本都是时序数据库的首选。

最近接手一个项目，客户当前的解决方案是使用一个Connector收Kafka中的特定Topic消息，解析后转存入InluxDB。 从这个可以看出客户并不是很熟悉InluxDB的应用，我给出的改进方案就是在Kafka和InfluxDB中间加入Telegraf，Kafka作为Telegraf的Plugin，这样就把收Kafka消息再解析转存的任务交给Telegraf了。

只需要改一下Telegraf的配置，如下：

vi /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf

# Configuration for sending metrics to InfluxDB

[[outputs.influxdb]]

  ## The full HTTP or UDP URL for your InfluxDB instance.

  ##

  ## Multiple URLs can be specified for a single cluster, only ONE of the

  ## urls will be written to each interval.

  # urls = ["unix:///var/run/influxdb.sock"]

  # urls = ["udp://127.0.0.1:8089"]

  urls = ["http://127.0.0.1:8086"]

  ## The target database for metrics; will be created as needed.

  ## For UDP url endpoint database needs to be configured on server side.

  database = "telegraf"

  ## The value of this tag will be used to determine the database.  If this

  ## tag is not set the 'database' option is used as the default.

  # database_tag = ""

  ## If true, no CREATE DATABASE queries will be sent.  Set to true when using

  ## Telegraf with a user without permissions to create databases or when the

  ## database already exists.

  # skip_database_creation = false

  ## Name of existing retention policy to write to.  Empty string writes to

  ## the default retention policy.  Only takes effect when using HTTP.

  # retention_policy = ""

  ## Write consistency (clusters only), can be: "any", "one", "quorum", "all".