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How to disable sensor through the agent's configuration file

How To


Summary

A quick guide on how to disable a specific sensor through the agent's configuration.

Steps

If you want to disable a specific sensor, you can do so by altering the configuration.yaml.

To do so, add the following line in the sensor configuration:
enabled: false
Some sensors already have this field, such as this one:
com.instana.plugin.aws.elb:
  enabled: false
  cloudwatch_period: 60
  include_tags:
  exclude_tags:
  include_untagged: true
While some don't, such as this one:
# Clickhouse
com.instana.plugin.clickhouse:
  user: default    # the username used to access ClickHouse's HTTP interface
  password: root   # the password used to access ClickHouse's HTTP interface
  protocol: http   # 'http' or 'https'
  host: localhost  # the host name or IP of the ClickHouse server
  httpPort: 8123   # the port of the ClickHouse server
  monitorTables    # more in-depth metrics for these tables
    - 'database.table1'
    - 'database.table2'
    - 'database.table3'
But overall, adding the previously mentioned line like this - deactivates the sensor:
# Clickhouse
com.instana.plugin.clickhouse:
  enabled: false # deactivates the sensor if set to false
  user: default    # the username used to access ClickHouse's HTTP interface
  password: root   # the password used to access ClickHouse's HTTP interface
  protocol: http   # 'http' or 'https'
  host: localhost  # the host name or IP of the ClickHouse server
  httpPort: 8123   # the port of the ClickHouse server
  monitorTables    # more in-depth metrics for these tables
    - 'database.table1'
    - 'database.table2'
    - 'database.table3'

Document Location

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Document Information

Modified date:
08 August 2023

UID

ibm17009011

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