⚠️ Please note that Rabbit Monitor is now deprecated and has been replaced by Rabbit Monitor 2. The new version has been completely rewritten in Rust for improved performance and scalability compared to the previous Python-based implementation.
Rabbit Monitor is a simple program that fetches your computer data every 5 seconds (By default) and create /metrics API endpoint for other programs to collect data from it.
Required packages:
- quart
- psutil
- argparse
API Endpoints:
- /metrics (Support Prometheus)
# Install Python modules
pip install quart psutil argparse
# Install Rabbit Monitor
pip install rabbitmonitor
# Start monitoring with
python3 -m rabbitmonitorRunning Rabbit Monitor in the background is a simple task, just make sure that it runs without errors before doing this. Place the contents below in a file called rabbitmonitor.service in the /etc/systemd/system directory.
WARNING: Make sure to change the User to the one that have installed pip packages.
[Unit]
Description=Rabbit Monitor
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStart=python3 -m rabbitmonitor
TimeoutStartSec=0
TimeoutStopSec=2
RemainAfterExit=yes
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.targetThen, run the commands below to reload systemd and start Rabbit Monitor.
systemctl enable --now rabbitmonitorRabbit Monitor has a pre-made Grafana dashboard that looks like this:
It can be installed from official Grafana website: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/16275
