Memcached 🔗

Description 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector provides this integration as the Memcached monitor type for the Smart Agent Receiver.

This monitor collects the following information from Memcached nodes:

request information (including hits, misses & evictions)
current connections
net input/output bytes
number of items cached

Installation 🔗

This monitor is available in the Smart Agent Receiver, which is part of the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

To install this integration:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform.
Configure the monitor, as described in the next section.

Configuration 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector allows embedding a Smart Agent monitor configuration in an associated Smart Agent Receiver instance.

Note: Providing a Memcached monitor entry in your Collector or Smart Agent (deprecated) configuration is required for its use. Use the appropriate form for your agent type.

Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector 🔗

To activate this monitor in the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, add the following to your agent configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/memcached:
    type: collectd/memcached
    ...  # Additional config

To complete the monitor activation, you must also include the smartagent/memcached receiver item in a metrics pipeline. To do this, add the receiver item to the service > pipelines > metrics > receivers section of your configuration file.

See configuration examples for specific use cases that show how the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector can integrate and complement existing environments.

Smart Agent 🔗

To activate this monitor in the Smart Agent, add the following to your agent configuration:

monitors:  # All monitor config goes under this key
 - type: collectd/memcached
   ...  # Additional config

See Smart Agent example configuration for an autogenerated example of a YAML configuration file, with default values where applicable.

Configuration settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the Memcached monitor:

Option	Required	Type	Description
`host`	yes	`string`
`port`	yes	`integer`
`name`	no	`string`
`reportHost`	no	`bool`	(default: `false`)

Metrics 🔗

The following metrics are available for this integration:

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