metricd-agent

metricd is agent for collecting and sending metrics. Currently collects information about system and sends as JSON via HTTP. In the future more reporters (e.g statsd, graphite, riemann, influxdb) and collectors (e.g. metricd-nginx, metricd-haproxy, metricd-mysql, metricd-redis) will be available.

Installation

pip is easiest way to install metricd.

Dependencies

• python 2.7, >=3.3 (tested with version 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5)
• Python development tools and libraries (called python-dev or devel)
• pip

Installing dependencies

Ubuntu / Debian:

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev gcc

RedHat / CentOS:

$ sudo yum install python-devel gcc

OSX

You need to install Xcode

Installing pip

Ubuntu / Debian:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip

RedHat / CentOS:

$ sudo yum install python-pip # from EPEL repository

Any platform:

$ curl -sSL https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
$ sudo python get-pip.py

Installing package:

$ sudo pip install metricd

Upgrading:

$ sudo pip install metricd --upgrade

Uninstalling:

$ sudo pip uninstall metricd

Running

The following command prints metrics to console:

metricd console

If you want to send metrics with HTTP POST as JSON:

$ metricd http --url http://localhost:3000/collect

## with extra headers

$ metricd http --url http://localhost:3000/collect --headers X-Foo=Bar --headers X-Access-Token=jaezei9G

License

The MIT License (MIT), Copyright (c) 2016 Osman Ungur