Create Plugins/Monitors

The Scalyr Agent is extensible and plugin modules can be created easily for the Linux agent. A plugin is a simple Python module that executes within the Scalyr Agent process and gathers information to be uploaded to the DataSet servers.

You can read the full plugin authoring documentation here

Testing a plugin

You can read more about this in the full GitHub plugin testing utility docs.

Clone the testing tool

git clone https://github.com/scalyr/scalyr-monitor-tester.git

Build your environment

docker build . -t scalyr-monitor-dev

Take a look at the sample monitor 

cat ./monitors/test_monitor.py

Run the sample

docker run -v $(pwd)/monitors:/monitors scalyr-monitor-dev python -m scalyr_agent.run_monitor monitors.your_monitor_name_monitor -c '{"gauss_mean": 0.5}'

Edit the sample or create a new one with the full documentation

Continue to Configure Plugins