Cacti integration

Cacti integration

Integrating Cacti with New Relic provides you with a user-friendly, graphical representation of your RRD data, all within New Relic's unified platform.

You can see your data in a dashboard after setting up the Cacti integration with New Relic.

Set up the Cacti integration

Complete the following steps to set up the Cacti integration:

Install the infrastructure agent

To use the Cacti integration, you need to first install the infrastructure agent on the same host.

Expose Cacti metrics

Complete the steps below to expose your RRD data in either a CSV or JSON format:

Export data from Cacti's RRD files into the XML format using RRDTool.
Convert the XML data into a CSV or JSON format.

Use NRI-Flex to capture CSV format metrics

Flex comes bundled with the New Relic infrastructure agent. You need to configure NRI-Flex for Cacti and create a flex configuration file. Follow these steps:

Create a file named cacti-config.yml in the /newrelic-infra/integrations.d path.
Update the cacti-config.yml with the following configuration example:
```
---
integrations:
  - name: nri-flex
    config:
      name: machineLoad
      apis:
       - name: machineLoad
         file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_load_1min_2.csv
       - name: memSwap
         file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_mem_swap_5.csv
       - name: proc
         file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_proc_1.csv
       - name: machineUser
         file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_users_3.csv
       - name: memBuffers
         file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_mem_buffers_4.csv
       - name: ApacheCpuLoad
         file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_apache_cpuload_6.csv
       - name: ApacheTotalHits
         file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_apache_total_hits_7.csv
       - name: ApacheTotalKbytes
         file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_apache_total_kbytes_8.csv
       - name: UserLogins
         file: /home/ubuntu/xmlToCsv/local_linux_machine_active_10.csv
```

Forward Cacti logs

Follow these steps to forward Cacti logs to New Relic:

Edit the log file named logging.yml located at the following path:
bash
```
$cd /etc/newrelic-infra/logging.d
```

Add the following snippet to the logging.yml file. Replace file with your Cacti log file path if needed:

logs:
  - name: cacti.log
    file: /var/www/html/cacti/log/LOG_FILE_NAME
    attributes:
      logtype: cacti_log

Restart the New Relic infrastructure agent

Restart your infrastructure agent:

bash

$sudo systemctl restart newrelic-infra.service

Your application will send metrics to one.newrelic.com in a few minutes.

Find your data

You can use our pre-built dashboard template to monitor your Cacti application metrics. Follow these steps to use our pre-built dashboard template:

From one.newrelic.com, go to the + Integrations & Agents page
Click on Dashboards
In the search bar, type Cacti
The Cacti dashboard should appear. Click on it to install it
Your Cacti dashboard is considered a custom dashboard and can be found in the Dashboards UI. For docs on using and editing dashboards, see our dashboard docs.
Here is an example NRQL query to view the count of the user login :
```
SELECT latest(value) FROM UserLoginsSample FACET name
```

What's next?

To learn more about building NRQL queries and generating dashboards, check out these docs:

Introduction to the query builder to create basic and advanced queries.
Introduction to dashboards to customize your dashboard and carry out different actions.
Manage your dashboard to adjust your dashboard display mode or add more content.

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