How to configure Sensu with RMQ and InfluxDB - rabbitmq

Question

I am trying to get started with a monitoring server solution. I got the Sensu Clients, RabbitMQ and Uchiwa configured but then I tried using Graphite but there were so many parts to configure I tried InfluxDB instead. I am stuck configuring Sensu to InfluxDB.
Is there a part missing in the below configuration?
Client [Sensu] > RabbitMQ <> Sensu Server <> InfluxDB <> Grafana
Any suggestions?
cat influx.json
{
"influxdb": {
"hosts" : ["192.168.1.1"],
"host" : "192.168.1.1",
"port" : "8086",
"database" : "sensumetrics",
"time_precision": "s",
"use_ssl" : false,
"verify_ssl" : false,
"initial_delay" : 0.01,
"max_delay" : 30,
"open_timeout" : 5,
"read_timeout" : 300,
"retry" : null,
"prefix" : "",
"denormalize" : true,
"status" : true
}
}
cat handler.json
{
"handlers": {
"influxdb": {
"type": "pipe",
"command": "/opt/sensu/embedded/bin/metrics-influxdb.rb"
}}}
checks1,
{
"checks": {
"check_memory_linux": {
"handlers": ["influxdb","default"],
"command": "/opt/sensu/embedded/bin/check-memory-percent.rb -w 90 -c 95",
"interval": 60,
"occurrences": 5,
"subscribers": [ "TEST" ]
}}}
checks2,
{
"checks": {
"check_cpu_linux-elkctrl-pipe": {
"type": "metric",
"command": "/opt/sensu/embedded/bin/check-cpu.rb -w 80 -c 90",
"subscribers": ["TEST"],
"interval": 10,
"handlers": ["debug","influxdb"]
}}}

Answer 1

To use InfluxDB to persist your data, you must have:
InfluxDB plugin installed (also, installation and usage instructions here)
Definitions for the plugin (an influxdb.json containin at least the host, port, user, password and database to be used by Sensu)
The definition, as other config files, must be in /etc/sensu/conf.d/
Handler configuration set properly (also in conf.d)
Mutator for InfluxDB (extensions)
Your checks must send results to the handler, so their definition must contain:
"handlers": [
"influxdb"
]
Or whatever name you gave your handler.

Answer 2

Case, if the influxdb config you provided above is the full extent of your configuration, it would seem to be missing the username/password attributes required by the influxdb configuration. If they're present, but not provided in the post, no big deal. However, I'd recommend doing the following for your Sensu logs:
grep -i influxdb /var/logs/sensu/sensu-server.log
And seeing if the check result is getting sent to your influxdb instance. If they are, you should be receiving an error that might be pointing a bit more to what's going on.
You can also check your influxdb logs to see if they're getting a post from your Sensu server:
journalctl -u influxdb.service -f
But yeah, if the username/password is missing from the configuration, that'd be the first place that I start.