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Maintained by [email protected]
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Module documentation for 0.4.0.12

EKG: Remote monitoring of running processes over HTTP

This library lets you remotely monitor a running process over HTTP. It provides a simple way to integrate a monitoring server into any application.

Getting started

Adding monitoring to your application is simple. Just launch the monitoring server as soon as your application starts

import System.Remote.Monitoring

main = do
     forkServer "localhost" 8000
     ...

and then visit http://localhost:8000/ in your web browser.

To make full use out of this module you must first enable GC statistics collection in the run-time system. To enable GC statistics collection, either run your program with

+RTS -T

or compile it with

-with-rtsopts=-T

The runtime overhead of -T is very small so it’s safe to always leave it enabled.

JSON API

The monitoring server also lets you to retrieve the stats as JSON. Simply send the server an HTTP GET request with the Accept header set to “application/json”:

curl -H "Accept: application/json" http://localhost:8000/

You can use the JSON API to e.g. write applications that monitor other applications.

Get involved!

Please report bugs via the GitHub issue tracker.

Master git repository:

git clone https://github.com/tibbe/ekg.git

Authors

This library is written and maintained by Johan Tibell, [email protected].

Changes

0.4.0.11 (2016-09-14)

  • Support aeson 1.0.

0.4.0.10 (2016-05-28)

  • GHC 8.0 support.

0.4.0.8 (2015-07-32)

  • Move the JSON encoding into a separate ekg-json package.

0.4.0.7 (2015-07-07)

  • Support aeson-0.9.

0.4.0.6 (2015-05-08)

  • Support GHC 7.10.

  • Re-raise exceptions in the server thread in the main thread.

  • Improve Windows support.

0.4.0.5 (2014-11-30)

  • Support network-2.6.

  • Fix broken example code.

0.4.0.4 (2014-10-20)

  • Fix bug where forkServerWith would register GC metrics, despite the docs saying that it doesn’t.

  • Fix example code that broke in the package split.

0.4.0.3 (2014-09-30)

  • Support text-1.2.

0.4.0.2 (2014-08-19)

  • Support aeson-0.8 and transformers-0.4.
  • Include original bootstrap source in tarball.

0.4.0.1 (2014-07-12)

  • Fix JS bug which led to type errors for distribution metrics.

0.4.0.0 (2014-05-01)

  • Lots of the internals were split off into a new package, ekg-core.

  • The Gauge.modify function was removed, as it can’t be supported by the new, more efficient implementation of gauges.

  • The JSON API was significantly overhauled. The the Haddock documentation for details.

  • The metric store used internally by the server is now exposed and can be used to share the same metric store between ekg and e.g. ekg-statsd.

  • It’s now possible to provide a custom metric store to the server.

  • The getDistribution function was added.

  • The UI now has less special treatment for built-in metrics.

0.3.1.3 (2013-02-22)

  • Fixed security issue where ekg would always listen to all incoming requests, even if “localhost” was specified.

  • Always export par_tot_bytes_copied. Previously it was only exported if using base-4.6 and later.

0.3.1.2 (2012-09-18)

  • Support GHC 7.6

0.3.1.1 (2012-06-25)

  • Bump dependencies.

0.3.1.0 (2012-04-17)

  • Add labels, which are free-form string values exported by the monitoring server. Labels allow you to export e.g. the command line arguments used to start the executable or the host name it’s running on.

0.3.0.4 (2012-04-03)

  • Add original JavaScript files to tarball to ease distribution packaging.

0.3.0.4 (2012-04-03)

  • Change icons to Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licensed one

0.3.0.3 (2012-03-19)

  • Support Snap 0.8

0.3.0.2 (2012-03-07)

  • Don’t require an internet connection, by serving Bootstrap CSS and jQuery from the monitoring server.

0.3.0.1 (2012-01-26)

  • Switch from Blueprint to Bootstrap CSS

  • Overhaul look-and-feel

0.3.0.0 (2012-01-01)

  • Add gauges and change counters to always be monotonically increasing

  • Add web interface column headers

  • Reorganize the web interface to show counters and gauges in separate sections

  • Change REST API to allow separate access to counters and gauges

  • Return the server time in the JSON response it and use server time instead of client time when graphing

  • Make it possible to graph user-defined counters and gauges

  • Format numbers using comma separators

  • Show a message box when the server can’t be reached

0.2.0.0 (2011-12-30)

  • Add user-defined counters

  • Suppress Snap logging to stdio

  • Add REST-style API for accessing single counters

0.1.0.0 (2011-12-27)

  • First EKG release