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glux
glux

Reputation: 532

Stackdriver Alert based on service status

Is it possible to setup an alert based on the status of a custom service. For example, stackdriver-agent service crashed at one point. When running 'service stackdriver-agent status" I receive an 'Active: inactive (dead)' response.

Is it possible to setup an alert based on the condition above? The stackdriver-agent service is just an example. In theory, I would like to setup this alert condition on any service.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 787

Answers (2)

Aaron Sher
Aaron Sher

Reputation: 86

Thrahir's answer is a good one, though the UI has changed since then (click the right arrow next to "Metric" and "Uptime Check" to see other condition types; "Process Health" is the very last one).

If your service is a server, you might rather use an uptime check (https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/uptime-checks/) to monitor its state; that gives you a better analog to what the service's users will see than directly monitoring your processes does.

Aaron Sher, Stackdriver engineer

Upvotes: 0

Thrahir
Thrahir

Reputation: 98

The answer is yes. In Stackdriver you can set up an alarm for any process in your machine. Selecting the option Add Process Health Condition you can configure alarms to receive notifications if your process starts or stops. Bear in mind that you first have to set up the Stackdriver Agent in your machine and that this option is only available in Stackdriver premium.

Upvotes: 1

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