By using the official plugin, which supports many different kinds of middleware, it’s easy to gather middleware metrics. Supported environments will be the same as mackerel-agent, so for more information about that please refer to our outline of supported environments.
In order to monitor metrics for AWS services like ELB or RDS, consider using AWS Integration. As for the posting of service metrics, please use fluentd. For more information please refer to Posting metrics related to ELB from AWS CloudWatch to service metrics.
See below for plugins included in the official plugin pack.
- Installing the official plugin pack
- Using the official plugin pack
- Source code for the official plugin pack
Installing the official plugin pack
Linux OS
We recommend using yum or apt repositories for installation, depending on your environment. The repository is set up when you do Register a new Host; if you want to get the rpm or deb files directly, please refer to GitHub Releases.
rpm package
sudo yum install mackerel-agent-plugins
Updates can be performed using the following command.
sudo yum update mackerel-agent-plugins
deb package
sudo apt-get install mackerel-agent-plugins
Updates can be performed using the following command.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mackerel-agent-plugins
Windows Server
Official plugins are bundled with the agent. See List of Plugins for a list of included plugins. For information on how to install the agent, see Registering a New Host.
Updating the agent will also update the included plugins. See Installing mackerel-agent on Windows for instructions on how to update.
Plugins that are not included are not officially supported and must be built by the user.
Using the official plugin pack
Linux OS
Each plugin has been installed in /usr/bin ,so please configure the mackerel-agent settings file to meet with the plugin which you will be using as shown below.
if using plugin for Apache2
[plugin.metrics.apache2] command = ["mackerel-plugin-apache2"]
For more on how to use each plugin, refer below to the README of each plugin in GitHub.
Windows Server
Each plugin is stored in the agent's installation folder and has its own path. add the following settings to mackerel-agent's configuration file according to the plugin you are using. Restarting mackerel-agent is required for the settings to take effect.
When using the "mackerel-plugin-mssql" plugin, the description is as follows.
[plugin.metrics.mssql] command = ["mackerel-plugin-mssql"]
For more on how to use each plugin, refer below to the README of each plugin in GitHub.
Source code for the official plugin pack
The official plugin pack is open to the public and can be found here GitHub. We are always happy to receive Pull Requests, comments, etc. regarding plugins that support new middleware.
For creating plugins please refer to Posting custom metrics.
