[New Integration] Aerospike

[muthu-mps]

The goal is to support collecting metrics from the Aerospike by developing Aerospike integration. With Aerospike database the database health, performance can be monitored.

Note: The current beats module tested against and supports 3.x versions. The current version of Aerospike is 7.x which exports metrics using prometheus-exporter.

Enhancement Request to develop Aerospike Integration: https://github.com/elastic/enhancements/issues/19117

[muthu-mps]

cc: @SubhrataK , @lalit-satapathy

[herrBez]

Hi there,

With elastic/beats#41233 we added support for Basic Auth and contextually, we upgraded the go-client library to the version 7, meaning that now the Module does work with all versions greater than 4.9 (including 7.x).

Note that the module is not using Prometheus but rather the equivalent of asinfo -v 'namespace' and asinfo -v 'namespace/test' to query the data without requiring to deploy the Prometheus Integration of Aerospike (which requires the Areospike's HTTP outbound connector to be deployed).

An alternative that may be explored (in the future?) would be the deployment of an OpenTelemetry Integration that uses the Aerospike receiver that uses a similar mechanism, not relying on Prometheus.

P.S. Please note that while the connectivity work, some of the metrics we are fetching with the module have been removed https://aerospike.com/docs/reference/release_notes/server/7.0-server-release-notes#metrics-items-removed . I have a local draft to add support for some of the metrics and will probably try to open a PR in the coming days/weeks.