Outlyer Agent

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Outlyer Agent

Author: Outlyer | Version: 1.0.0 | License: MIT | Categories:

This integration is installed by default to provide a dashboard and instructions to install and monitor your account and the Outlyer agent, which is required to run our other monitoring integrations that require plugins on your hosts.

Your account agent key for installing the agents is:

{AGENT_KEY}

The agent sends back the following metrics by default so you can get visibility into the agents health and performance across your hosts:

Metric Name Type Labels Unit Description
agent.uptime Gauge   Seconds The total uptime since the agent was started
agent.cpu_pct Gauge   Percent The CPU utalization of the core agent process
agent.mem_pct Gauge   Percent The memory utalization of the core agent process
agent.mem_res Gauge   Bytes  
agent.mem_virt Gauge   Bytes  
agent.publish_metrics Gauge   Count The number of metrics being published by the agent per flush
agent.publish_latency Gauge   Seconds The time taken to flush all the metrics to Outlyer per flush
agent.request_inprogress Gauge   Count  
agent.request_latency_count Gauge   Count  
agent.request_latency_sum Gauge   Seconds  

Additionally Outlyer collects the following metrics by default to give visibility into your account usage.

Metric Name Type Labels Unit Description
outlyer_metric_count Gauge   Count The number of actively reported series
outlyer_metric_churn Gauge   Percent Percentage change of series per hour More information.
outlyer_invalid_metrics Counter rule_name Count The number of validation failures, including which validation rule(s) failed
outlyer_host_count Gauge   Count The number of hosts reported on (includes non-agent hosts)
outlyer_container_count Gauge host Count The number of containers reported on, including on which host they reside

You must install the Outlyer agent for your platform. Full instructions to do this can be found on our docs: https://docs2.outlyer.com/docs/agent/overview

Your account agent key for installing the agents is:

{AGENT_KEY}

Version Release Date Description
1.0 22-May-2018 Initial version
2.0 15-Jan-2019 Add metrics and dashboard for account metrics