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Inspried by StatsD, an embedable library that will automatically watch your process from a single function call and will stop when your process stops. No need to externally start a process to watch and send stats. Its efficient and simple and easy to use is 100% the goal of this project.

Compilation

To compile and setup the system:

$ autoreconf --force --install
$ ./configure CC=clang/gcc CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" --prefix=/opt/watchy
$ make
$ make install

To compile using the library use:

$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/watchy/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
$ pkg-config watchy --cflags --libs

Now the shared library is installed

$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
$ # the python setup.py will create the cython module but it requires pkg-config watchy to work
$ python setup.py build
$ # sudo -E so it will export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
$ sudo -E python setup.py install --prefix=/opt/watchy

Usage

Firstly you should setup the server an example config should be in /etc/watchy/example-watchy.cfg

[watchyd]
web_bind = 0.0.0.0     # address to bind to for web app
web_port = 7777        # port to serve the web app
stats_bind = localhost # stats aggregator bind
stats_port = 7878      # stats aggregator port

This is the barebones configuration, the web bind and port is required for the web dashboard the stats bind/port is for the stats aggregation process. Clients the watchydaemon send data to this not the dashboard.

Now you can run the web app:

$ /usr/local/bin/watchy.py --help
Usage: watchy.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         Print version
  -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG
                        Config file location
  -F, --fork            Fork as daemon

You can run this server via:

$ /usr/local/bin/watchy.py -c /etc/watchy/example-watchy.cfg 
WATCHY INFO - Starting StatsAggregator on 0.0.0.0:7878
WATCHY INFO - Starting Async Backend handler
WATCHY INFO - WSGIServer:[gevent] starting http://0.0.0.0:8787/
...

You should be able to point your browser to http://localhost:8787, you can fork as a daemon and change your logging config in the config file as per pythong logging.config.

You can send stats up many ways but the easiest is:

$ /opt/watchy/bin/watcher -k hostname -b localhost -p 7878 process1:<pid> process2:<pid>

Or you can tail a log:

$ tail -f /var/log/syslog | /opt/watchy/bin/wtail -k syslog -p 7878 -b localhost

The web app should automatically update and you should see things going off if not look at the log and see if it is getting any stats.

##Backends

Currently the mongodb backend is the only working backend to enable it specify in the config:

[watchyd]
backends = mongo

[mongo]
type = mongodb
uri = mongodb://localhost:27017

You simple specify the URI to your mongo instance this works via: pymongo MongoClient (uri). Zeromq, RabbitMq, Websockets and Ganglia are currently under development.

##Platform Support

Currently the python server should run on anywhere that has flask and python 2.7, but the library has only been ported to darwin (Mac OSX) and linux (Ubuntu/RedHat).

*BSD and Solaris support is eventually going to pop along.

RestApi

The Flask web app exposes a very simple rest api, a web socket api is planned for real time stats per node. All rest calls are json no xml support.

The web socket api is going to be very useful here and a zeromq a rabbit amqp backend too.

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