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discovery.azure
discovery.azure
discovers Azure Virtual Machines and exposes them as targets.
Usage
discovery.azure "LABEL" {
}
Arguments
The following arguments are supported:
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
environment | string | Azure environment. | "AzurePublicCloud" | no |
port | number | Port to be appended to the __address__ label for each target. | 80 | no |
subscription_id | string | Azure subscription ID. | no | |
refresh_interval | duration | Interval at which to refresh the list of targets. | 5m | no |
proxy_url | string | HTTP proxy to send requests through. | no | |
no_proxy | string | Comma-separated list of IP addresses, CIDR notations, and domain names to exclude from proxying. | no | |
proxy_from_environment | bool | Use the proxy URL indicated by environment variables. | false | no |
proxy_connect_header | map(list(secret)) | Specifies headers to send to proxies during CONNECT requests. | no | |
follow_redirects | bool | Whether redirects returned by the server should be followed. | true | no |
enable_http2 | bool | Whether HTTP2 is supported for requests. | true | no |
no_proxy
can contain IPs, CIDR notations, and domain names. IP and domain
names can contain port numbers. proxy_url
must be configured if no_proxy
is configured.
proxy_from_environment
uses the environment variables HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY
and NO_PROXY (or the lowercase versions thereof). Requests use the proxy from
the environment variable matching their scheme, unless excluded by NO_PROXY.
proxy_url
and no_proxy
must not be configured if proxy_from_environment
is configured.
proxy_connect_header
should only be configured if proxy_url
or proxy_from_environment
are configured.
Blocks
The following blocks are supported inside the definition of
discovery.azure
:
Hierarchy | Block | Description | Required |
---|---|---|---|
oauth | oauth | OAuth configuration for Azure API. | no |
managed_identity | managed_identity | Managed Identity configuration for Azure API. | no |
tls_config | tls_config | TLS configuration for requests to the Azure API. | no |
Exactly one of the oauth
or managed_identity
blocks must be specified.
oauth block
The oauth
block configures OAuth authentication for the Azure API.
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
client_id | string | OAuth client ID. | yes | |
client_secret | string | OAuth client secret. | yes | |
tenant_id | string | OAuth tenant ID. | yes |
managed_identity block
The managed_identity
block configures Managed Identity authentication for the Azure API.
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
client_id | string | Managed Identity client ID. | yes |
tls_config block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
ca_pem | string | CA PEM-encoded text to validate the server with. | no | |
ca_file | string | CA certificate to validate the server with. | no | |
cert_pem | string | Certificate PEM-encoded text for client authentication. | no | |
cert_file | string | Certificate file for client authentication. | no | |
insecure_skip_verify | bool | Disables validation of the server certificate. | no | |
key_file | string | Key file for client authentication. | no | |
key_pem | secret | Key PEM-encoded text for client authentication. | no | |
min_version | string | Minimum acceptable TLS version. | no | |
server_name | string | ServerName extension to indicate the name of the server. | no |
The following pairs of arguments are mutually exclusive and can’t both be set simultaneously:
ca_pem
andca_file
cert_pem
andcert_file
key_pem
andkey_file
When configuring client authentication, both the client certificate (using
cert_pem
or cert_file
) and the client key (using key_pem
or key_file
)
must be provided.
When min_version
is not provided, the minimum acceptable TLS version is
inherited from Go’s default minimum version, TLS 1.2. If min_version
is
provided, it must be set to one of the following strings:
"TLS10"
(TLS 1.0)"TLS11"
(TLS 1.1)"TLS12"
(TLS 1.2)"TLS13"
(TLS 1.3)
Exported fields
The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components:
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
targets | list(map(string)) | The set of targets discovered from the Azure API. |
Each target includes the following labels:
__meta_azure_subscription_id
: The Azure subscription ID.__meta_azure_tenant_id
: The Azure tenant ID.__meta_azure_machine_id
: The UUID of the Azure VM.__meta_azure_machine_resource_group
: The name of the resource group the VM is in.__meta_azure_machine_name
: The name of the VM.__meta_azure_machine_computer_name
: The host OS name of the VM.__meta_azure_machine_os_type
: The OS the VM is running (eitherLinux
orWindows
).__meta_azure_machine_location
: The region the VM is in.__meta_azure_machine_private_ip
: The private IP address of the VM.__meta_azure_machine_public_ip
: The public IP address of the VM.__meta_azure_machine_tag_*
: A tag on the VM. There will be one label per tag.__meta_azure_machine_scale_set
: The name of the scale set the VM is in.__meta_azure_machine_size
: The size of the VM.
Each discovered VM maps to a single target. The __address__
label is set to the private_ip:port
([private_ip]:port
if the private IP is an IPv6 address) of the VM.
Component health
discovery.azure
is only reported as unhealthy when given an invalid
configuration. In those cases, exported fields retain their last healthy
values.
Debug information
discovery.azure
does not expose any component-specific debug information.
Debug metrics
discovery.azure
does not expose any component-specific debug metrics.
Example
discovery.azure "example" {
port = 80
subscription_id = AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
oauth {
client_id = AZURE_CLIENT_ID
client_secret = AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET
tenant_id = AZURE_TENANT_ID
}
}
prometheus.scrape "demo" {
targets = discovery.azure.example.targets
forward_to = [prometheus.remote_write.demo.receiver]
}
prometheus.remote_write "demo" {
endpoint {
url = PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE_URL
basic_auth {
username = USERNAME
password = PASSWORD
}
}
}
Replace the following:
AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
: Your Azure subscription ID.AZURE_CLIENT_ID
: Your Azure client ID.AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET
: Your Azure client secret.AZURE_TENANT_ID
: Your Azure tenant ID.PROMETHEUS_REMOTE_WRITE_URL
: The URL of the Prometheus remote_write-compatible server to send metrics to.USERNAME
: The username to use for authentication to the remote_write API.PASSWORD
: The password to use for authentication to the remote_write API.
Compatible components
discovery.azure
has exports that can be consumed by the following components:
- Components that consume Targets
Note
Connecting some components may not be sensible or components may require further configuration to make the connection work correctly. Refer to the linked documentation for more details.