Active metrics monitoring triggers an alert if the monitored metric exceeds a predefined threshold.
This app requires Python. Please install Python. For the Python install script, see here.
This application will run in a Python virtual environment.
/opt/weetech/python-3.13.0/bin/python3.13 -m venv alert_threshold_env
source alert_threshold_env/bin/activate
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
This assumes that alert_threshold is installed in /app.
$ cd /app/alert_threshold/;
$ source alert_threshold_env/bin/activate;
$ python3 alert_threshold_metric.py --log_dir /var/log/monitor
--check_config_dir /app/alert_threshold/conf/
--state_file_dir /var/lib/monitoring-weetech-ch/state
--ssh_username john
--ssh_port 22
--ssh_private_key /app/alert_threshold/key.pem
--ssh_host_script_dir /app/monscript/
--alert_email_recipient root
--alert_email_from [email protected]
--alert_email_smtp_host localhost
--alert_email_smtp_port 25
--alert_telegram_token <my_bot_token>
--alert_telegram_api_key <my_api_key>
--alert_telegram_chat_id <my_chat_id>;
To run this application periodically and ensure system admins/support receive timely alerts, a Jenkins installation is required.
- Make sure you have already run this app as described in the How to run this app section.
- Download and install Jenkins. While Jenkins setup is outside the scope of this document, more information can be found here.
- Create a Freestyle Project in Jenkins and apply the appropriate settings. The minimum required settings are:
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