NixStats Agent

NixStats.com is a web service of monitoring and displaying statistics of your server performance.

This software is an OS-agnostic agent compatible with Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7. It's been optimized to have a small CPU consumption and comes with an extendable set of useful plugins.

Installation

Depending on your platform, many installation options are possible. We are listing them more or less in the order from the most specific (and preferred) to the most generic ones.

Debian GNU/Linux

Manual installation:

apt-get install python3-devel python3-setuptools python3-pip
pip3 install nixstatsagent
wget -O /etc/nixstats.ini https://www.nixstats.com/nixstats.ini

You can find your USERTOKEN on the settings page (https://nixstats.com/settings/overview). You need this to generate a serverid.

nixstatshello USERTOKEN /etc/nixstats-token.ini

Create a service for systemd at /etc/systemd/system/nixstatsagent.service

[Unit]
Description=Nixstatsagent

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/nixstatsagent
User=nixstats

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then run:

chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/nixstatsagent.service
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable nixstatsagent
systemctl start nixstatsagent

Fedora / CentOS

For version 6 or earlier (python 2.6, 2.7):

yum install python-devel python-setuptools gcc
easy_install nixstatsagent netifaces psutil

For version 7 and later (python 3):

yum install python36-devel python36 gcc

pip3 install nixstatsagent

Windows

Download the windows installer for nixstatsagent. When asked for the usertoken, provide the usertoken that is available on the settings page at Nixstats.

Python 2.4 or 2.5 environment

As the source package is published on PyPI, provided that you've obtained setuptools, simply do:

easy_install nixstatsagent