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Linux Service Monitoring

You can configure MetricsHub to monitor a Linux service. In the example below, we configured MetricsHub to monitor the httpd service running on the prod-web resource using SSH.

Procedure​

To achieve this use case, we:

  • Declare the resource to be monitored (prod-web)​ and its attributes (host.name, host.type)​

    resources:
      prod-web:
        attributes:
          host.name: prod-web
          host.type: linux

  • Configure the SSH protocol with credentials and timeout​

        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: USERNAME
            password: PASSWORD
            timeout: 30

  • Add a new instance of the LinuxService connector for the monitoring of the httpd service, and name it LinuxServiceHttpd for example:

        additionalConnectors:
          LinuxServiceHttpd:
            uses: LinuxService

  • Set the variable serviceNames to specify the service to monitor (httpd)​

            variables:
              serviceNames: httpd

Here is the complete YAML configuration:

resources:
  prod-web:
    attributes:
      host.name: prod-web
      host.type: linux
    protocols:
      ssh:
        username: USERNAME
        password: PASSWORD
        timeout: 30
    additionalConnectors:
      LinuxServiceHttpd:
        uses: LinuxService
        variables:
          serviceNames: httpd

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