Administrators

This part of the Sasquatch documentation contains information for Sasquatch administrators. A Sasquatch administrator is responsible for maintaining the Sasquatch components and its deployments.

Overview

• Sasquatch Architecture
  • Apache Kafka
  • Telegraf connectors
  • MirrorMaker2
  • InfluxDB Enterprise

Guides

• Deploying into a new environment
  • Enable Sasquatch in Phalanx
  • Gather IP addresses and update Phalanx config
  • Provision DNS for TLS certificate
  • Configure Gafaelfawr OIDC authentication
  • Merge your Phalanx branch!
• Strimzi Operator and Kafka upgrades
  • Kafka upgrades
• Shutdown Kafka gracefully
• Kafka broker migration
• Telegraf connectors
  • Configuration
    • Specifying the Kafka topics and the InfluxDB database
    • Timestamps
    • Tags
  • Deployment
  • Managing connectors
    • List connectors
    • View connector logs
    • Stop connectors
    • Restart connectors
  • Monitoring
• Managing Shards in an InfluxDB Cluster
  • Listing Shards
  • Checking data integrity
  • Shard movement
  • Backup and restore
• Adding a Sasquatch subchart
  • External Charts vs. Local Subcharts
  • Adding External Charts
  • Adding Local Subcharts
  • Using Subcharts for Application Resources
• Backup and restore
  • Enabling Backup Items
  • Configure Backup Schedule
  • Persistent Storage Configuration
  • Verifying a Backup
  • Suspending a Scheduled Backup
  • Restoring from a Backup
  • Restoring from a Chronograf backup
  • Restoring from a Kapacitor backup
  • Restoring from an InfluxDB Enterprise Incremental backup
    • Executing into the Sasquatch Restore Pod
    • Creating a Restore Job
• Monitoring
  • Summit
  • USDF
  • Summit - USDF connection
• InfluxDB Enterprise query limits
• InfluxDB Enterprise license installation
  • Overview
    • License Types by Environment
    • License Installation
    • Verifying License Installation
• Remote Context
  • Remote topics
  • Schema Isolation with a Remote Schema Registry
  • Telegraf configuration for remote topics
  • InfluxDB measurement name consistency
  • Enabling remote context in a Sasquatch

Troubleshooting

• “Request exceeded user-specified time limit” error when Telegraf consumes kafka topics
  • Mitigations
    • Reduce request size
    • Increase Telegraf processing time
• “Context deadline exceeded” error when Telegraf writes to InfluxDB
  • Mitigations
    • Send smaller batches
    • Increase Telegraf timeout