RabbitMonitor2

Rabbit Monitor is a simple program written in Rust that collects computer stats every 3 seconds (By default) and create /metrics API endpoint for other programs like Prometheus, Grafana... to collect data and display it.

API Endpoints:

• /metrics

Installation

# Download the binary
wget https://github.com/Rabbit-Company/RabbitMonitor2/releases/download/v4.1.0/rabbitmonitor
# Set file permissions
sudo chmod 777 rabbitmonitor
# Place the binary to `/usr/local/bin`
sudo mv rabbitmonitor /usr/local/bin
# Start the monitor
rabbitmonitor

Daemonizing (using systemd)

Running Rabbit Monitor in the background is a simple task, just make sure that it runs without errors before doing this. Place the contents below in a file called rabbitmonitor.service in the /etc/systemd/system/ directory.

[Unit]
Description=Rabbit Monitor 
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStart=rabbitmonitor
TimeoutStartSec=0
TimeoutStopSec=2
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then, run the commands below to reload systemd and start Rabbit Monitor.

systemctl enable --now rabbitmonitor

Upgrade

# Stop service
systemctl stop rabbitmonitor

# Download Rabbit Monitor
wget https://github.com/Rabbit-Company/RabbitMonitor2/releases/download/v4.1.0/rabbitmonitor
sudo chmod 777 rabbitmonitor
sudo mv rabbitmonitor /usr/local/bin

# Start service
systemctl start rabbitmonitor

Grafana Dashboard

Rabbit Monitor has a pre-made Grafana dashboard that looks like this:

It can be installed from official Grafana website: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/18562