Recommendations

At the time of writing, these are the recommended tools by MONIT for metrics and logs integration, more tools will be added in here as the MONIT service keeps evolving.

Metrics integration

Currently, there are two possible ways of integrating metrics in MONIT:

• Internal(Coming from inside CERN):
• There are several supported way to send metrics to MONIT currently: Collectd, HTTP, Prometheus
• While we will be keeping support for all of them (for the time being), the preferred way to integrate new metrics in the actuality is using Prometheus, since with time we will be moving more and more into this environment and transition will be easier for users this way.
  • The recommended tools to write to Prometheus are: Prometheus remote write and fluentbit remote write
• HTTP will still be supported but this data will be integrated in Opensearch or InfluxDB backends instead
• External(Coming from outside CERN):
• To integrate metrics coming from outside CERN please refer to the AMQ source docs

Logs integration

Logs can only be integrated from inside CERN, recommended way is to use HTTP input Regarding forwarding agent to send the logs, currently the officially supported from the MONIT team is Apache Flume, but we are making efforts to start supporting fluentbit across different environment, and so, this is the recommended one for new integrations.