In my previous post we talked about how to record information from short lived scripts (I call them ephemeral scripts by the way) with prometheus. The example there was a script which checked the SMART status of each of the disks in a machine and reported that via pushgateway. I now want to work through…
Tag: monitoring
Recording performance information from short lived processes with prometheus
Now that I’m recording basic statistics about the behavior of my machines, I now want to start tracking some statistics from various scripts I have lying around in cron jobs. In order to make myself sound smarter, I’m going to call these short lived scripts “ephemeral scripts” throughout this document. You’re welcome. The promethean way…
Basic prometheus setup
I’ve been playing with prometheus for monitoring. It feels quite familiar to me because its based on an internal google technology called borgmon, but I suspect that means it feels really weird to everyone else. The first thing to realize is that everything at google is a web server. Your short lived tool that copies…