Documentation for monitorstack

The monitorstack project provides a framework for writing monitoring plugins that output data in various formats for different monitoring systems. Developers can quickly add new monitoring plugins (along with tests) without worrying about how to format the data.

Overview

• Installation
  • Installing from pypi with pip
  • Installing from git
• Configuration
• Usage
  • Executing simple plugins
  • Executing plugins with arguments
  • Executing plugins with configuration files
• Developer guide
  • Writing plugins
  • Testing plugins
  • Running tests

Plugins

• Base plugins
  • kvm - get details from running KVM instances
  • memcache - get statistics from a memcache server
  • process - monitor a running process
  • uptime - get system uptime