October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
To get more out of Stackdriver, a monitoring agent can be installed on the instance in order to collect additional metrics. By default, the monitoring agent collects disk, CPU, network, and process metrics; however, additional metrics can also be collected.
The Stackdriver monitoring agent is a collectd-based agent that can be installed both on GCP and AWS instances. The agent can be also configured to monitor many applications, including the Apache web server, Tomcat, Kafka, Memcached, and Redis.
The installation of the agent on Linux is very straightforward, and requires the following two commands to be executed:
curl -sSO https://dl.google.com/cloudagents/install-monitoring-agent.shsudo bash install-monitoring-agent.sh ...
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