Quoting victorhooi(a)yahoo.com (victorhooi(a)yahoo.com): If you need more flexibility in *how* you want to get the metrics into influxdb I would go for telegraf. It was developed for us to be able to send metrics to influxdb from a network isolated from Ceph (with the help of two telegraf daemons (and the socket listener on one of them). It's helpful when you make your life complicated by using network namespaces (for a reason though ;-)). If you have a straightforward network setup without difficulties reaching influxdb from your ceph managers you can use influxdb just fine as well. That said there are plenty of metrics not available outside of prometheus plugin. I would recommend pushing ceph related metrics from the built-in ceph plugin in the telegraf client as well. The PR to add support for MDS and RGW to Ceph plugin has not been merged yet [1], but can be used to built a telegraf daemon that does. Gr. Stefan [1]: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/6915 -- | BIT BV https://www.bit.nl/ Kamer van Koophandel 09090351 | GPG: 0xD14839C6 +31 318 648 688 / info(a)bit.nl