mqtt2graphite

mqtt2graphite

This program subscribes to any number of MQTT topics, extracts a value from the messages' payload and sends that off to Graphite via Carbon over a UDP socket.

Values in the payload can be simple numbers (92, 12.7) or JSON strings. In the latter case, all JSON names/keys are extracted and if their values are numeric, these are then sent off to Carbon (see example below)

Requirements

• Paho Python MQTT
• A running Carbon/Graphite server with UDP-enabled reception
• Access to an MQTT broker. (I use Mosquitto)

Running

• Set the environment variable DEBUG and MQTT_HOST to the name/IP of your MQTT broker. (localhost is default.)
• Edit the map file
• Run ./mqtt2graphite.py [map file] if the map file is not provided a file called map in the current working directory is used

Handling numeric payloads

mqtt2graphite assumes topics defined as "n" in the map file contain a simple number (integer or float), published thusly:

mosquitto_pub  -t test/jp/j1 -m '69'

Handling JSON payloads

mosquitto_pub  -t test/jp/j2 -m '{ "size":69,"temp": 89.3, "gas": " 88", "name": "JP Mens" }'

produces the following Carbon keys

test.jp.j2.gas 88.000000 1363169282
test.jp.j2.temp 89.300000 1363169282
test.jp.j2.size 69.000000 1363169282

Todo

A lot.

• Add configuration file in which we specify username/password and TLS certificates.
• I'm not experienced enough with high volume of messages, so this should maybe transmit to Carbon via StatsD?