Open source systems monitoring solution with support for plugins and scripts.
This software is free to use and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
- Example dashboards are provided in the doc/dashboards/ folder, which can be imported into your Grafana installation.
- Screenshots of some of the default dashboards are available in doc/screenshots section.
Some of my other related projects are:
- hmci for agent-less monitoring of IBM Power servers
- svci for monitoring IBM Storage Virtualize (Flashsystems / Storwize / SVC)
- syslogd for redirecting syslog to other logging destinations
Screenshots of other dashboards are available in the doc/screenshots folder.
The server component receives aggregated metrics from agents and saves these into InfluxDB.
- Downloaded server package from releases.
- More information and documentation on the sysmon-server.
The agent runs on all or some of your hosts and collects metrics, which are then sent to the central sysmon-server component. Plugins are loaded by the agent at startup and should also be installed.
- Downloaded agent & plugin packages from releases.
- More information and documentation on the sysmon-agent.
- More information and documentation on the sysmon-plugins.
Known problems
- Ensure you have correct timezone and date/time and NTPd (or similar) running to keep it accurate!
You can't have hosts with the same name, as these cannot be distinguished when metrics are written to InfluxDB (which uses the hostname as key).
If you rename a host, the metrics in InfluxDB will still be available by the old hostname, and new metrics will be written with the new hostname. There is no easy way to migrate the old data, but you can delete it easily:
USE sysmon;
DELETE WHERE hostname = 'unknown';