Monitoring MarkLogic
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The good news is that MarkLogic have released a Nagios plugin.
The reference manual is available from http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/5.0/books/monitoring.pdf (see chapter 3 for Nagios specifics) and the plugin itself from http://developer.marklogic.com/download/binaries/nagios/MarkLogic-Nagios-Plugin-1.0-1.tar
Installing the plugin
You’ll only need to follow the first 3 steps of section 3.4 of the Monitoring MarkLogic Guide, in essence:
- Unzip the plugin tar
- Copy/move check_marklogic.pl to
/usr/local/nagios/libexec
chmod +x check_marklogic.pl
Setting up a service check
Once the plugin has been installed we can define service checks, Figure 1 shows two simple examples (using a clean install of MarkLogic plus the Hadoop Connector – maybe a topic for another blog post?).
You would normally want to set up finer-grained service checks with
thresholds – consequently the plugin accepts additional arguments (but
doesn’t support the de facto help argument) to specify keys (-k
), warning (-w
) and critical (-c
) thresholds. Note that the thresholds can use an operator (-op
) argument. These arguments are fully detailed in section 3.5.2.3 of the Monitoring MarkLogic Guide.
Checks in action
Figure 2 shows the host-level view of the service checks, with the detail of the performance data behind them shown in Figures 3 and 4.
There you go, quick and easy basic monitoring of MarkLogic.
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