Fluentd metrics plugin issue - Splunk does not show actual value but just "metric" string for all metrics

[f6fss]

We are using Fluentd metrics plugin to send data into our Splunk environment. I wonder if there is any config/settings issue from our end? Please see our settings at bottom.

What happened: Metric data shows "metric" word (string) instead of actual metrics

What you expected to happen: Metric data shows actual meaningful metric

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible): N/A

Anything else we need to know?:

Environment:

• Openshift 4.8
• OS (e.g: cat /etc/os-release):
• Splunk version: 8.1.4
• Splunk Connect for Kubernetes helm chart version: 1.3.5
• Others:

<match kube.**> @type splunk_hec data_type metric metric_name_key "metric_name" metric_value_key "value" protocol https hec_host "XXXXXXX" hec_port 8088 consume_chunk_on_4xx_errors true hec_token xxxxxx host "ose-dev45-kxzgv-master-2" index "rd_openshift_metrics" source "${tag}" sourcetype "kube:metrics" insecure_ssl true app_name "splunk-kubernetes-metrics" app_version "1.4.15"

[hvaghani221]

You need to create metric index. Select Metrics index data type.

Refer following image for creating metric index.

Provide the metric index in config. For example:

splunk-kubernetes-metrics:
  enabled: true
  splunk:
    hec:
      indexName: metric_index