metrics.sh/README.md

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# metrics.sh
metrics.sh is a metrics collection and fowarding daemon implemented in portable shell scripts. A simple interface based on hooks allows for writing custom metrics collectors.
## Usage
```
Usage: ./metrics.sh [-d] [-h] [-v] [-r reporter] [-i interval]
Options:
-r, --reporter <reporter> use specified reporter (default: stdout)
-i, --interval <seconds> collect metrics every n seconds (default: 2)
-v, --verbose enable verbose mode
-d, --docs show documentation
-h, --help show this text
```
## Installation
```bash
$ git clone git@github.com:pstadler/metrics.sh.git
```
TODO: /etc/init.d
### Requirements
metrics.sh has been tested on Ubuntu and Mac OS X but is supposed to run on most *NIX-line operating systems. Some of the provided metrics require [procfs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs) to be available (check with `[ -d /proc ] && echo available || echo not available`).
## Metrics
Metric | Description
------------- | -------------
cpu | CPU usage in %
memory | Memory usage in %
swap | Swap usage in %
network_io | Network I/O in kB/s
disk_io | Disk I/O in MB/s
disk_usage | Disk usage in %
heartbeat | System heartbeat
ping | Check if remote host is reachable
TODO: how to write custom metrics
## Reporters
TODO: how to write custom reporters
## TODO
- README
- config file support
- config file auto-generation
- load custom/contrib metrics and reporters
- same metric multiple times? (e.g. disk_usage for multiple devices)
- allow multiple reporters?