MetricsHub
MetricsHub Enterprise 1.0.02

Monitoring a service running on Linux

MetricsHub makes it easy to monitor your services managed by systemd[1]. To set up monitoring, we only need to specify a dedicated instance of the Linux - Service (systemctl)[2] connector in the config/metricshub.yaml configuration file. Under this instance, we specify the name or the command line of the service to be monitored.

In the example below, we specify a dedicated instance of the metricshubLinuxService connector (LinuxService) to monitor the metricshub service running on a Linux server.

Note: This page provides just one example of the data collection feature available in MetricsHub. For more information, refer to Customize Data Collection[3].

Procedure

To monitor the metricshub service running on Linux:

  1. In the config/metricshub.yaml file, we configure the monitoring on a Linux machine through SSH:

        resources:
      prod-web:
        attributes:
          host.name: [prod-web-01, prod-web-02]
          host.type: linux
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: monagent
            password: REDACTED
            timeout: 30s

  2. We specify the httpd dedicated instance of the Linux - Service (systemctl)[2] connector:

            additionalConnectors:
          httpd: 
            uses: LinuxService # Connector used

  3. We specify the service to be monitored:

                variables:
              serviceNames: httpd

Here is the complete YAML configuration to be added to config/metricshub.yaml to monitor the metricshub service running on Linux:

    resources:
      prod-web:
        attributes:
          host.name: [prod-web-01, prod-web-02]
          host.type: linux
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: monagent
            password: REDACTED
            timeout: 30
        additionalConnectors:
          httpd:
            uses: LinuxService
            variables:
              serviceNames: httpd
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Links:
  • [1] https://systemd.io/
  • [2] ../connectors/linuxservice.html
  • [3] ../configuration/configure-monitoring.html#customize-data-collection
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