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Custom script to monitor an application

I'm looking at writing a custom script to monitor an application (memcached in this case). The script is easy - have that resolved no problem. What I don't know is if I can return multiple data points in a single script to be processed with the "run 3rd party script" style of plugin.

I've read through the APM administrators guide, and it seems to imply that I can return multiple values, but I wasn't sure of the format.

Would the format look something like

onemetric: 73

twometric: 234

threemetric: 23

Or would it look like:

Message: onemetric

Statistic: 73

Message: twometric

Statistic: 234

All of the example scripts listed in the docs show only a single return value.

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sysad_mike

Hello,

Depends on the scripting language. What I use is powershell, with something like this

Write-host "Onemetric.Statistic: " + $statisticVariable

write-host "OneMetric.Message: " + $MessageVariable

natetech

My biggest issue was trying to incorporate error handling. With up to 10 Application Monitors on over 1200 nodes, I frequently see "One or more application monitors is in an Unknown state."

This really causes issues with script returns.