Service Monitoring using Cloud Monitoring Stack driver

[Kaushal Shriyan]

Hi , 

I am running GCE Instance in the GCP US region. Is there a way to monitor the Nginx, MySQL, Apache, Redis, PHP-fpm, and Apache SOLR services in GCE VM instances?

For example, if Nginx web services go down, Cloud Monitoring services trigger alerts in email or Slack channel. Similarly for other services like Redis or apache or PHP-fpm.

Are there any custom monitoring scripts available in Google Cloud (Stackdriver) Monitoring to take care of this specific use case?

Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal

[Igor Peshansky]

Hi, Kaushal,

There are a few ways to achieve what you are looking for.

First, the Cloud Monitoring agent supports a number of third-party applications like NGINX, MySQL, Apache, and Redis. See https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/plugins for details. There is no out-of-the-box support for PHP or SOLR, but you may be able to use the advanced custom metrics mechanism to ingest metrics of your choice for those applications. You can then set up alerts for anything from low usage thresholds to metric absence, and have those alerts sent to the Slack notification channel.

Another option for applications that expose a web endpoint is uptime checks, which you can also set up alerts on. These will tell you if your server is not serving external requests, even if it's otherwise running.

Hope this helps.

        Igor

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[Kaushal Shriyan]

Thanks Igor for the detailed explanation. I am trying to configure php-fpm service which is running on port 9000 by following https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent/custom-metrics-agent Are there any sample configurations or template to monitor out-of-the-box support. Any examples will help me understand?

Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal