Graphite with powershell

Seems that nobody provided any suggestions and as such i have followed another approach. I am still very curious as to why Graphite doesn't interpret my sent message. The solution to this problem was using a UDP socket instead of a TCP one and sending the metrics to statsd which in term sends them to Graphite. This seems to work without any complications, and in if you think about it it's better for your network because it minimizes traffic(if you keep statsd and Graphite on the same node).

I'm posting the script in case anyone encounters my problem and his environment resembles mine. Here is the script

[int] $Port = 8125$IP = "here is your IP" $Address = [system.net.IPAddress]::Parse($IP) $End = New-Object System.Net.IPEndPoint $address, $port $Saddrf   = [System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily]::InterNetwork $Stype    = [System.Net.Sockets.SocketType]::Dgram $Ptype    = [System.Net.Sockets.ProtocolType]::UDP $Sock     = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.Socket $saddrf, $stype, $ptype $sock.Connect($end) function Send_Graphite{param ($Metric)$Enc     = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII $Buffer  = $Enc.GetBytes($Metric) $Sent   = $Sock.Send($Buffer) "{0} characters sent to: {1} " -f $Sent,$IP "Message is:" $Metricsleep 1}  while (1 -eq 1){    $DiskQue =  [int]((get-counter -Counter "\PhysicalDisk(1 e: f:)\Current Disk Queue Length" ).countersamples | select -property cookedvalue).cookedvalue    $BytesReceived = [int]((get-counter -Counter "\Server\Bytes Received/sec" ).countersamples | select -property cookedvalue).cookedvalue    $BytesSent =  [int]((get-counter -Counter "\Server\Bytes Transmitted/sec").countersamples | select -property cookedvalue).cookedvalue    $MemAvail = ((get-counter -Counter "\Memory\Available Bytes").countersamples | select -property cookedvalue).cookedvalue    $MemCommit = ((get-counter -Counter "\Memory\Committed Bytes").countersamples | select -property cookedvalue).cookedvalue    $ReadOp =  [int]((get-counter -Counter "\System\File Read Operations/sec").countersamples | select -property cookedvalue).cookedvalue    $WriteOp = [int]((get-counter -Counter "\System\File Write Operations/sec").countersamples | select -property cookedvalue).cookedvalue    $Message1 = "MAIN.OSmetrics.DiscQueue:"+$DiskQue+"|c"    $Message2 = "MAIN.OSmetrics.BytesReceived:"+$BytesReceived+"|c"    $Message3 = "MAIN.OSmetrics.BytesSent:"+$BytesSent+"|c"    $Message4 = "MAIN.OSmetrics.MemAvail:"+$MemAvail+"|c"    $Message5 = "MAIN.OSmetrics.MemCommit:"+$MemCommit+"|c"    $Message6 = "MAIN.OSmetrics.ReadOp:"+$ReadOp+"|c"    $Message7 = "MAIN.OSmetrics.WriteOp:"+$WriteOp+"|c"    $Mesages = $Message1, $Message2, $Message3, $Message4, $Message5, $Message6, $Message7    foreach($Message in $Mesages)    {        Send_Graphite $Message     }}

The script is extensible and you can monitor a lot of things, just run get-counter -ListSet * and you will see. I've installed the script with TaskScheduler, and you can control the frequency with the while loop by inserting a sleep.

I made a series of PowerShell functions which are useful for sending metrics to Graphite easily. You can configure all the Windows performance counters and how often you want them sent on to the Graphite server. Full source code is here: https://github.com/MattHodge/Graphite-PowerShell-Functions

I mostly wanted to let you know that you are not alone. I ran into the same problem where charts showed up, but the data was null. I was however able to make it past the 0d0a vs 0a problem in this code. I tried UDP as well but in my case that didn't work either. Perhaps you will have some luck with TCP using this method. Cobbled this from various sources.

$dtmUTC = [int][double]::Parse((Get-Date -UFormat %s))$CR=""$carbonServer = "host.domain.com"[int] $carbonServerPort = 2003[int]$bufSize = 1472  #MTU on this network$IP = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($carbonServer)$Address = [system.net.IPAddress]::Parse($IP)$EndPoint = New-Object System.Net.IPEndPoint $Address, $carbonServerPort$Saddrf   = [System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily]::InterNetwork #UDP$Stype    = [System.Net.Sockets.SocketType]::Dgram $Ptype    = [System.Net.Sockets.ProtocolType]::UDP #TCP#$Stype    = [System.Net.Sockets.SocketType]::Stream #$Ptype    = [System.Net.Sockets.ProtocolType]::TCP $Sock     = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.Socket $Saddrf, $Stype, $Ptype $Sock.Connect($EndPoint)function Send_Graphite{    param ($thisFile)    #encoder object    $Enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII    # Read the entire file    $bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($thisFile)    $begin=0    $remain=$bytes.Length    while ( $begin -lt $bytes.Length)    {        if ( $remain -lt $bufsize)        {            $bufsize = $remain        }        $Chunk = $bytes.Substring($begin, $bufsize)        $Buffer = $Enc.GetBytes($Chunk)        $rc=$Sock.Send($Buffer)        sleep 1        $begin  += $bufsize        $remain = $remain - $bufsize    }   } $M=""foreach ($C in "server1","server2"){       #echo "polling $C ===================="    ForEach ( $Drives in Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk -ComputerName $c -Filter "DriveType=3"  )    {        ForEach ( $Drive in $Drives )        {            $D=$Drive.DeviceID.Replace(":","")            $SZ=$Drive.Size            $FS=$Drive.FreeSpace            $N=$Drive.VolumeName            $N=$N.Replace(" ","")            $U=$SZ-$FS            $S="itinf.stor.$C"            if ( $FS -eq "" )            {                echo "$N FreeSpace was null"            }            if ( $N -eq "" )            {                $N="default"                #echo "$N VolumeName was null"            }            if ($SZ -eq "")            {                echo "$N Size was null"            }            $M = $M + $CR            $CR="`n"            $M = $M + "$S.$N.Size $SZ $dtmUTC$CR"            $M = $M + "$S.$N.Free $FS $dtmUTC$CR"            $M = $M + "$S.$N.Used $U $dtmUTC$CR"            $M = $M + "$S.$D.Size $SZ $dtmUTC$CR"            $M = $M + "$S.$D.Free $FS $dtmUTC$CR"            $M = $M + "$S.$D.Used $U $dtmUTC"        }    } }Out-File -NoNewline -FilePath gph.txt -InputObject $MSend_Graphite gph.txtsleep .1if ($Ptype -eq "TCP") { $Sock.Disconnect($EndPoint) }