ctrlX Data Layer and Thanos Integration
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Input and output integration overview
<p>The ctrlX plugin is designed to gather data seamlessly from the ctrlX Data Layer middleware, widely used in industrial automation.</p>
<p>This plugin sends metrics from Telegraf to Thanos using the Prometheus remote write protocol over HTTP, allowing efficient and scalable ingestion into Thanos Receive components.</p>
Integration details
ctrlX Data Layer
<p>The ctrlX Telegraf plugin provides a means to gather data from the ctrlX Data Layer, a communication middleware designed for professional automation applications. This plugin allows users to connect to ctrlX CORE devices, enabling the collection and monitoring of various metrics related to industrial and building automation, robotics, and IoT. The configuration options allow for detailed specifications of connection settings, subscription properties, and sampling rates, facilitating effective integration with the ctrlX Data Layer to meet customized monitoring needs, while leveraging the unique capabilities of the ctrlX platform.</p>
Thanos
<p>Telegraf’s HTTP plugin can send metrics directly to Thanos via its Remote Write-compatible Receive component. By setting the data format to <code>prometheusremotewrite</code>, Telegraf can serialize metrics into the same protobuf-based format used by native Prometheus clients. This setup enables high-throughput, low-latency metric ingestion into Thanos, facilitating centralized observability at scale. It is particularly useful in hybrid environments where Telegraf is collecting metrics from systems outside Prometheus’ native reach, such as SNMP devices, Windows hosts, or custom apps, and streams them directly to Thanos for long-term storage and global querying.</p>
Configuration
ctrlX Data Layer
Thanos
Input and output integration examples
ctrlX Data Layer
<ol> <li> <p><strong>Industrial Automation Monitoring</strong>: Utilize this plugin to continuously monitor key performance indicators from a manufacturing system controlled by ctrlX CORE devices. By subscribing to specific data nodes that provide real-time metrics such as resource availability or machine uptime, manufacturers can dynamically adjust their operations for increased efficiency and minimal downtime.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Energy Consumption Analysis</strong>: Collect energy consumption data from IoT-enabled ctrlX CORE platforms in a smart building setup. By analyzing trends and patterns in energy use, facility managers can optimize operating strategies, reduce energy costs, and support sustainability initiatives, making informed decisions about resource allocation and predictive maintenance.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Predictive Maintenance for Robotics</strong>: Gather telemetry data from robotics applications deployed in warehousing environments. By monitoring vibration, temperature, and operational parameters in real-time, organizations can predict equipment failures before they occur, leading to reduced maintenance costs and enhanced robotic system uptime through timely interventions.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Cross-Platform Data Integration</strong>: Connect data gathered from ctrlX CORE devices into a centralized Cloud data warehouse using this plugin. By streaming real-time metrics to other systems, organizations can create a unified view of operational performance across various manufacturing and operational systems, enabling data-driven decision-making across diverse platforms.</p> </li> </ol>
Thanos
<ol> <li> <p><strong>Agentless Cloud Monitoring</strong>: Deploy Telegraf agents across cloud VMs to collect system and application metrics, then stream them directly into Thanos using Remote Write. This provides centralized observability without requiring Prometheus nodes at each location.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Scalable Windows Host Monitoring</strong>: Use Telegraf on Windows machines to collect OS-level metrics and send them via Remote Write to Thanos Receive. This enables observability across heterogeneous environments with native Prometheus support only on Linux.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Cross-Region Metrics Federation</strong>: Telegraf agents in multiple geographic regions can push data to region-local Thanos Receivers using this plugin. From there, Thanos can deduplicate and query metrics globally, reducing latency and network egress costs.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Integrating Third-Party Data into Thanos</strong>: Collect metrics from custom telemetry sources such as REST APIs or proprietary logs using Telegraf inputs and forward them to Thanos via Remote Write. This brings non-native data into a Prometheus-compatible, long-term analytics pipeline.</p> </li> </ol>
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Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-velocity data. Any data is more valuable when you think of it as time series data. with InfluxDB, the #1 time series platform built to scale with Telegraf.
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