Requests HAProxy statistics and reports them to a Graphite/NodeJS backend. This version of the script is intedend to be executed as a cronjob.

A script doing the same, but runs as a daemon was created by P. Roberts and can be found here: https://github.com/phillipbroberts/HAP-Monitor

A simple Python script requesting the statistics of several HAProxies (http://www.haproxy.org/) and reports them into Graphite (http://graphite.wikidot.com/).

In order to report data to Graphite, the Python module py-statsd is used. The source code can be found here at GitHub in the repository https://github.com/sivy/py-statsd.git. Installation instructions are given in according README.md file.

The script is configured solely by CLI argumets.

usage: hap-monitor-cron.py [-h] [--backend B] [--sockets S [S ...]] [--verbose]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --backend B          Graphite server URL[:port][::scope] to which the script will report to. E.g. --backend graphite.host:8025::my.system.stats.haproxy
  --type T             Type of the backend server. Supported values are: G (Graphite) and S (statsd)
  --sockets S [S ...]  a list of socket files e.g. /var/run/haproxy_admin_process_no_1.sock
  --verbose            makes it chatty

To execute it in the desired interval define a cronjob on the host running HAProxy. For example, we want collect data with one minute intervall:

*/1 * * * * python /usr/local/bin/hap-monitor.py --backend graphite.host:8025::my.system.stats.haproxy --type G --sockets /var/run/haproxy_admin_process_no_1.sock /var/run/haproxy_admin_process_no_2.sock

Also note, that the example above assumes HAProxy running two processes reproting iwhich conequently report into two distinct sockets.

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