Visor is a simple monitoring agent used within the cloudiator toolchain. It is responsible for monitoring servers/virtual machines. It supports multiple sensor for gathering resource information. In addition it offers a telnet interface, allowing applications on the same machine to report metrics to the monitoring infrastructure.
The collected data will be stored within a configurable time-series database.
For configuration purposes, it offers a small RESTful interface, allowing the start/stop spoecific sensors.
The agent is build using maven:
mvn clean install
Afterwards a bundled jar with dependencies can be found in the target folder.
Visor requires JRE 8.
java -jar target/visor-{version}-jar-with-dependencies.jar
usage: java -jar [args] visor.jar
-conf,--configFile <arg> Configuration file location.
-ip,--localIp IP of the local machine (optional)
A default configuration file can be found in the conf directory.
See Documentation for more details.
The latest version can be downloaded here