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Overview

This check monitors the Pure Storage FlashBlade through the Datadog Agent and the Pure Storage FlashBlade OpenMetrics exporter.

The integration can provide performance data at the array, client, share, and bucket level, as well as high-level capacity and configuration information.

You can monitor multiple FlashBlades and aggregate these into a single dashboard, or group them together by customer-defined environment.

This integration requires the following:

• FlashBlade Purity 4.1.x+
• Datadog Agent v7.26.x+ to use OpenMetricsBaseCheckV2
• Python 3
• The Pure Storage FlashBlade OpenMetrics exporter v1.0.11+ is installed and running in a containerized environment. Refer to the Pure Storage GitHub repo for installation instructions.

Setup

Follow the instructions below to install and configure this check for an Agent running on a host. For containerized environments, see the Autodiscovery Integration Templates for guidance on applying these instructions.

Installation

1. Download and launch the Datadog Agent.
2. Manually install the Pure FlashBlade integration. See Use Community Integrations for more details based on your environment.

Host

To configure this check for an Agent running on a host, run datadog-agent integration install -t datadog-purefb==2.0.0.

Configuration

1. Create a user on your FlashBlade with the Read-Only role and generate an API token for this user.

2. Add the following configuration block to the purefb.d/conf.yaml file, in the conf.d/ folder at the root of your Agent’s configuration directory, to start collecting your PureFB performance data. See the sample purefb.d/conf.yaml for all available configuration options.

Note: The /array endpoint is required as an absolute minimum when creating your configuration file.

init_config:
   timeout: 120

instances:

  - openmetrics_endpoint: http://<exporter_ip_or_fqdn>:<port>/metrics/array?endpoint=<array_ip_or_fqdn>
    tags:
       - env:<env>
       - fb_array_name:<full_fqdn>
       - host:<full_fqdn>
    headers:
       Authorization: Bearer <api_token>
    min_collection_interval: 120

  - openmetrics_endpoint: http://<exporter_ip_or_fqdn>:<port>/metrics/clients?endpoint=<array_ip_or_fqdn>
    tags:
       - env:<env>
       - fb_array_name:<full_fqdn>
       - host:<full_fqdn>
    headers:
       Authorization: Bearer <api_token>
    min_collection_interval: 600

  - openmetrics_endpoint: http://<exporter_ip_or_fqdn>:<port>/metrics/usage?endpoint=<array_ip_or_fqdn>
    tags:
       - env:<env>
       - fb_array_name:<full_fqdn>
       - host:<full_fqdn>
    headers:
       Authorization: Bearer <api_token>
    min_collection_interval: 600

2. Restart the Agent.

Validation

Run the Agent’s status subcommand and look for purefb under the Checks section.

Troubleshooting

Arrays are not showing in dashboard

The dashboards included in this integration use the tags env, host, and fb_array_name. Make sure that these are set per instance.

 tags:
    - env:<env>
    - fb_array_name:<full_fqdn>
    - host:<full_fqdn>

Increasing collection interval

For the /array endpoint, the Pure Storage FlashBlade check sets min_collection_interval to 120 by default, and the minimum recommended value is 15. You may increase or decrease min_collection_interval in the purefb.d/conf.yaml file if necessary:

min_collection_interval: 120

For the /clients, and /usage endpoints, the Pure Storage FlashBlade check sets min_collection_interval to 600 by default , and the minimum recommended value is 120. You may increase or decrease min_collection_interval in the purefb.d/conf.yaml file if necessary:

min_collection_interval: 600

Data Collected

Metrics

Events

The PureFB integration does not include any events.

Service Checks

See service_checks.json for a list of service checks provided by this integration.

Support

For support or feature requests, contact Pure Storage through the following methods:

• Email: pure-observability@purestorage.com
• Slack: Pure Storage Code// Observability Channel.