Pushing Metric Data to InfluxDB OSS 2.0 No Longer Works

[jim380]

System information

Geth version: 1.10.2-stable
OS & Version: Linux
Commit hash : 97d11b0187b4695ccf44e3b71b54155fe405a36f

Expected behaviour

As mentioned here in the official guide, the following command would allow geth to push metrics data to InfluxDB.

$ geth --metrics --metrics.influxdb --metrics.influxdb.endpoint "http://0.0.0.0:8086" --metrics.influxdb.username "geth" --metrics.influxdb.password "chosenpassword"

Actual behaviour

The flags combo above no longer works as intended with InfluxDB OSS 2.0. Now to get authorized you need to pass in a custom http header with your InfluxDB authentication token as the value and Authorization as the key. A simple auth with user/password doesn't work, even though it should according to the official InfluxDB documentation here.

WARN [04-10|15:36:57.636] Unable to send to InfluxDB               err="{\"code\":\"unauthorized\",\"message\":\"Unauthorized\"}"

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Start off geth with the flags above and you will see the warnings come up. No geth metrics are shown in Measurements either, which only confirms the issue.

$ curl --get http://localhost:8086/query?db=geth --header "Authorization: Token <your_token>" --data-urlencode "q=SHOW MEASUREMENTS"

{"results":[{"statement_id":0,"series":[{"name":"measurements","columns":["name"],"values":[["boltdb_reads_total"],["boltdb_writes_total"],["go_gc_duration_seconds"],["go_goroutines"],["go_info"],["go_memstats_alloc_bytes"],["go_memstats_alloc_bytes_total"],["go_memstats_buck_hash_sys_bytes"],["go_memstats_frees_total"],["go_memstats_gc_cpu_fraction"],["go_memstats_gc_sys_bytes"],["go_memstats_heap_alloc_bytes"],["go_memstats_heap_idle_bytes"],["go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytes"],["go_memstats_heap_objects"],["go_memstats_heap_released_bytes"],["go_memstats_heap_sys_bytes"],["go_memstats_last_gc_time_seconds"],["go_memstats_lookups_total"],["go_memstats_mallocs_total"],["go_memstats_mcache_inuse_bytes"],["go_memstats_mcache_sys_bytes"],["go_memstats_mspan_inuse_bytes"],["go_memstats_mspan_sys_bytes"],["go_memstats_next_gc_bytes"],["go_memstats_other_sys_bytes"],["go_memstats_stack_inuse_bytes"],["go_memstats_stack_sys_bytes"],["go_memstats_sys_bytes"],["go_threads"],["http_api_request_duration_seconds"],["http_api_requests_total"],["http_query_request_bytes"],["http_query_request_count"],["http_query_response_bytes"],["influxdb_buckets_total"],["influxdb_dashboards_total"],["influxdb_info"],["influxdb_organizations_total"],["influxdb_scrapers_total"],["influxdb_telegrafs_total"],["influxdb_tokens_total"],["influxdb_uptime_seconds"],["influxdb_users_total"],["influxql_service_executing_duration_seconds"],["influxql_service_requests_total"],["query_control_all_active"],["query_control_all_duration_seconds"],["query_control_compiling_active"],["query_control_compiling_duration_seconds"],["query_control_executing_active"],["query_control_executing_duration_seconds"],["query_control_memory_unused_bytes"],["query_control_queueing_active"],["query_control_queueing_duration_seconds"],["query_control_requests_total"],["query_influxdb_source_read_request_duration_seconds"],["service_bucket_new_call_total"],["service_bucket_new_duration"],["service_bucket_new_error_total"],["service_onboard_new_call_total"],["service_onboard_new_duration"],["service_org_call_total"],["service_org_duration"],["service_org_new_call_total"],["service_org_new_duration"],["service_password_new_call_total"],["service_password_new_duration"],["service_session_call_total"],["service_session_duration"],["service_token_call_total"],["service_token_duration"],["service_urm_new_call_total"],["service_urm_new_duration"],["service_user_new_call_total"],["service_user_new_duration"],["task_executor_promise_queue_usage"],["task_executor_total_runs_active"],["task_executor_workers_busy"],["task_scheduler_current_execution"],["task_scheduler_execute_delta"],["task_scheduler_schedule_delay"],["task_scheduler_total_execute_failure"],["task_scheduler_total_execution_calls"],["task_scheduler_total_release_calls"],["task_scheduler_total_schedule_calls"],["task_scheduler_total_schedule_fails"]]}]}]}

Backtrace

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[bisakhmondal]

Hii, can I give it a go? :)

[vishaljhala]

I just tried out with influx ver 2.0.6 and I was able to connect username & password without any issues. Is this still an issue?

[litsegaard]

Hi!

Any news on this? I'm trying to get this to work but still stumble on the "unauthorized" issue mentioned above.

Images:

• geth: ethereum/client-go:v1.10.2
• influxdb: influxdb:2.0.6 & influxdb:2.0.7 (tried both)

geth "flags":
-metrics.influxdb.endpoint http://influxdb:8086 --metrics.influxdb.username (username) --metrics.influxdb.password (password)

Many thanks in advance!

[min-xu-ai]

I just tried out with influx ver 2.0.6 and I was able to connect username & password without any issues. Is this still an issue?

I just tried with 2.0.7 on arch linux and it didn't work:

WARN [07-25|17:09:59.094] Unable to send to InfluxDB               err="{\"code\":\"unauthorized\",\"message\":\"Unauthorized\"}"

[grtcoder]

Hi, I would like to start contributing. Can I work on this issue?

[holiman]

Support for InfluxDB V2 was merged in #23194, closing this