Telegraf for ARM systems? (e.g. Netgate SG-3100).

stephenw10

Our ARM64 build server is now up and running but it looks like it's not yet building Telegraf/Rust etc. I'll see if there's a reason for that.
No news on ARMv6/7 though.

Steve

victorhooi

Any update on whether Telegraf packages are available for Netgate ARM devices (e.g. SG-3100) yet?

stephenw10

Telegraf is not available for armv6 (SG-3100) for the same reason. It requires a native build because of the language chosen to write it in. We do not currently have any armv6 build hardware so cannot build the package.

Steve

victorhooi

Ah ok - so the build pipeline for Rust/Golang is still not working for the SG-1100/SG-3100 etc, right?

Do you know if this is likely to be fixed in the future?

It would be a real bummer if all the SG-1100 and SG-3100 units out there were no longer able to run anything written in Rust or Golang =(.

stephenw10

The SG-1100 is aarch64 and we do have build hardware for that which is why it has Suricata 5.
https://twitter.com/NetgateUSA/status/1179190143225417735

I believe that should allow Telegraph there unless there is another obstacle I'm unaware of (which I might be).

Steve

victorhooi

Aha got it - but the SG-3100 is ARMv6/7, right, so that is still pending?

Basically, we have around 10 x SG-3100's - and we'd like to get Telegraf (Golang), Suricata (Rust) etc. all working on it.

Do you know if getting working build support for SG-3100 is on the roadmap?

Or if the SG-3100 isn't being supported anymore - is there a replacement device on the roadmap? (Although it'd be a bummer if the SG-3100 is being EOLed, since we bought them only last year).

stephenw10

Telegraf is now available on the SG-1100. Please test it if you can.

We are working on what we can do on armv6.

Steve

phoxmeh

I just installed the package on my SG-1100 and in the System Log I get

Apr 1 00:30:46 kernel pid 72858 (telegraf), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped)

and when I try and run telegraf from the console I get

Illegal instruction (core dumped)

stephenw10

Thanks for the report, we are investigating.

Steve

jlw52761

I have a SG-1100 and getting the same results, signal 4 (core dump).

stephenw10

It is still being looked at but is much lower priority than some other things right now.

kamushadenes

I can confirm it compiles and runs on SG-3100 with the following flags when using telegraf's master and go 1.14.1:

CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=freebsd GOARCH=arm GOARM=7 go build ./cmd/telegraf

I'm downloading the ports repository now to try and make the package.

zaxxon

@stephenw10 I installed the latest Telegraf 0.9_3 package on my SG-1100 today. I'm on pfSense 2.4.5. When I try to start the service I get a continuous stream of core dumps in the system log.

Apr 19 19:36:18 kernel pid 29205 (telegraf), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped)
Apr 19 19:36:21 kernel pid 29379 (telegraf), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped)
Apr 19 19:36:25 kernel pid 29647 (telegraf), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped)

stephenw10

Thanks for the feedback.
We are are aware of the problems and are looking at it. We are very busy right now though so no ETA I'm afraid.

Steve

jlw52761

@stephenw10 Is there anyway to assist in the progress? I've done lot's of compiling on Linux systems, never on a BSD system, but should be similar after learning the file structure and lib locations.

jlw52761

Updated to the 0.9_4 package version, still no joy.

styxl

i am also waiting for this official release

g0nz0uk

We were going to buy a batch of the 3100's for home users and offices, but knowing it won't support Telegraf is a deal breaker for us and we may have to look at other options now.

jd0x7c5

While we wait for the official plugin. Is there any community documentation I can follow to get telegraf up and running on a SG-3100 without going via the official plugin system?

victorhooi

I believe @kamushadenes was trying to make a package before (https://forum.netgate.com/post/904312), I wonder how that went.

That being said - it would be awesome if the Netgate team was able to get this working again .
I'm in the same boat as @g0nz0uk - looking to get a couple more SG-3100's - but I want to make sure it's still a support platform.

Is there a replacement for the SG-3100 (similar pricepoint and capacity) coming out? I'd rather get whatever you have new than buy the SG-3100 and find out it's deprecated.