Spectrum Agent – AWS

The Spectrum Agent is a piece of software that runs on your hosts. Its job is to collect metrics from your servers (such as CPU, Memory, Network, and more) and store them in Spectrum so that you can use them for monitoring, alerting and analytics purposes.

Pre-requirements

• The Agent can run on Linux based servers
• Python must be installed
• Psutil – Can be installed using:

sudo yum install gcc python-devel python-pip

pip install psutil

Download and Install the agent

sudo pip install spotinst-agent

Expected Results:

Initializing the Agent

sudo spotinst-agent init <Token> <AccountID>

Expected Results:

Add System Collector

Add system collector to report system metrics to Spectrum from your hosts.

sudo spotinst-agent add-collector system

Expected Results:

Heap data:

• current_eden_space_capacity
• current_eden_space_utilization
• current_old_space_capacity
• current_old_space_utilization
• metaspace_capacity
• metaspace_utilization
• number_of_young_generation_garbage_collection_events
• young_generation_garbage_collection_time
• number_of_full_garbage_collection_events

Class data:

• loaded_classes
• unloaded_classes

Thread data:

• thread_state

 

Agent Status

Use this command to validate that the agent is running properly.

sudo service --status-all | grep spotinst-agent

Expected Results: