Custom shell command monitoring with Anturis

Written by Clifford

An overview

Anturis maintains a large and growing library of monitor types available out-of-the-box.

Thats why good monitoring solutions provide ways to somehow extend their monitoring capabilities.

How it works

There is a special monitor jot down in Anturis called Custom Shell Command Monitor.

Command output is collected and uploaded to Anturis backend for interpretation.

There are two ways to check the output of the command execution.

First, treat it as a number (a measurement).

In this case Anturis will graph this value and peek if it stays inside user-defined bounds.

With Custom Shell Command Monitor a user possesses flexibility to set custom diagnostic actions to be executed.

Several examples are given in the next section.

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