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Version: Self Hosted Turbo

Configuration to Enable Linux Monitoring

Overview​

OS monitoring is the most commonly needed and most important aspect of monitoring. SnappyFlow provides a comprehensive monitoring of Linux OS through multiple plugins.

  • Linux base metric plugin provides following data:
    • CPU Static and Dynamic Metrics
    • Memory Metrics
    • Disk IO Metrics
    • Network IO Metrics
    • TCP Metrics
  • Syslog logging plugin

Configuration​

Refer to sfAgent section for steps to install and automatically generate plugin configurations. User can also manually add the configuration shown below to config.yaml under /opt/sfagent/ directory

key: <profile_key> 
tags: 
  Name: <name> 
  appName: <app_name> 
  projectName: <project_name> 
metrics: 
  plugins: 
    - name: linux 
      enabled: true 
      interval: 30 
logging: 
  plugins: 
    - name: linux-syslog 
      enabled: true 
      config: 
        log_level: 
          - error 
          - warning 
          - info 
        log_path: /var/log/syslog,/var/log/auth.log,/var/log/messages,/var/log/secur

Viewing data and dashboards​

  • Data collected by plugins can be viewed in SnappyFlow’s browse data section under metrics or logs or trace depending on the plugin

  • Linux metrics data

    • plugin= linux
    • documentType
      • cpu_static
      • cpu_util
      • ram_util
      • disk_stats
      • nic_stats
      • tcp_stats

  • Syslog data

    • plugin= linux-syslog
    • documentType= syslog

Test Matrix​

  • Centos: 7.x

  • RHEL: 7.x

  • Ubuntu: 14.x, 16.x

See Also​