This is a framework for writing your own Sensu plugins and handlers. It's not required to write a plugin (most Nagios plugins will work without modification); it just makes it easier.
Examples of plugins written with and without it can be found in
the sensu-plugins
organization.
To implement your own check, subclass Sensu::Plugin::Check::CLI
, like
this:
require 'sensu-plugin/check/cli'
class MyCheck < Sensu::Plugin::Check::CLI
check_name 'my_awesome_check' # defaults to class name
option :foo, :short => '-f' # Mixlib::CLI is included
def run
ok "All is well"
end
end
This will output the string "my_awesome_check OK: All is well" (like a Nagios plugin), and exit with a code of 0. The available exit methods, which will immediately end the process, are:
ok
warning
critical
unknown
You can also call message
first to set the message, then call an exit
method without any arguments (for example, if you want to choose between
WARNING and CRITICAL based on a threshold, but use the same message in
both cases).
For a metric, you can subclass one of the following:
Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::JSON
Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Graphite
Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Statsd
Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Dogstatsd
Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Influxdb
Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Generic
Instead of outputting a Nagios-style line of text, these classes will output differently formated messages depending on the class you chose.
require 'sensu-plugin/metric/cli'
class MyJSONMetric < Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::JSON
def run
ok 'foo' => 1, 'bar' => 'anything'
end
end
require 'sensu-plugin/metric/cli'
class MyGraphiteMetric < Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Graphite
def run
ok 'sensu.baz', 42
end
end
require 'sensu-plugin/metric/cli'
class MyStatsdMetric < Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Statsd
def run
ok 'sensu.baz', 42, 'g'
end
end
require 'sensu-plugin/metric/cli'
class MyDogstatsdMetric < Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Dogstatsd
def run
ok 'sensu.baz', 42, 'g', 'env:prod,myservice,location:us-midwest'
end
end
require 'sensu-plugin/metric/cli'
class MyInfluxdbMetric < Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Influxdb
def run
ok 'sensu', 'baz=42', 'env=prod,location=us-midwest'
end
end
require 'sensu-plugin/metric/cli'
class MyInfluxdbMetric < Sensu::Plugin::Metric::CLI::Generic
def run
ok metric_name: 'metric.name', value: 0
end
end
JSON output takes one argument (the object), and adds a 'timestamp'
key if missing. Graphite output takes two arguments, the metric path
and the value, and optionally the timestamp as a third argument.
Time.now.to_i
is used for the timestamp if it is not
specified. Statsd output takes three arguments, the metric path, the
value and the type. Dogstatsd output takes three arguments, the
metric path, the value, the type and optionally a comma separated list
of tags, use colons for key/value tags, i.e. env:prod
. Influxdb
output takes two arguments, the measurement name and the value or a
comma separated list of values, use =
for field/value,
i.e. value=42
, optionally you can also pass a comma separated list of
tags and a timestamp Time.now.to_i
is used for the timestamp if it is
not specified. Generic output takes a dictionary and can provide
requested output format with same logic. And inherited class will have a
--metric_format
option to switch between different output formats.
Exit codes do not affect metric output, but they can still be used by your handlers.
Some metrics may want to output multiple values in a run. To do this,
use the output
method, with the same arguments as the exit methods, as
many times as you want, then call an exit method without any arguments.
For either checks or metrics, you can override output
if you want
something other than these formats.
For help on setting up options, see the mixlib-cli
documentation.
Command line arguments that are not parsed as options are available via
the argv
method.
Various utility methods will be collected under Sensu::Plugin::Util. These won't depend on any extra gems or include actual CLI checks; it's just for common things that many checks might want to do.
For your own handler, subclass Sensu::Handler
. It looks much like
checks and metrics; see the handlers
directory for examples. Your class
should implement handle
. The instance variable @event
will be set
for you if a JSON event can be read from stdin; otherwise, the handler
will abort. Output to stdout will go to the log.
You can decide if you want to handle the event by overriding the
filter
method; but this also isn't documented yet (see the source; the
built in method does some important filtering, so you probably want to
call it with super
).
Filtering of events is now deprecated in Sensu::Handler
and disabled
by default as of version 2.0.
Event filtering in this library may be enabled on a per-check basis by setting
the value of the check's enable_deprecated_filtering
attribute to true
.
These built-in filters will be removed in a future release. See this blog post for more detail.
For your own mutator, subclass Sensu::Mutator
. It looks much like
checks and metrics; Your class should implement mutate
. The instance variable
@event
will be set for you if a JSON event can be read from stdin; otherwise,
the mutator will abort. Output to stdout will then be piped through to the
handler. As described in the docs if a mutator fails to run the event will
not be handled.
The example mutator found here will look like so:
require 'sensu-mutator'
class MyMutator < Sensu::Mutator
def mutate
@event.merge!(:mutated => true)
end
end
Whether you are writing a check, handler or mutator, Sensu's configuration
settings are available with the settings
method (loaded automatically
when the plugin runs). We recommend you put your custom plugin settings
in a JSON file in /etc/sensu/conf.d
, with a unique top-level key,
e.g. my_custom_plugin
:
{
"my_custom_plugin": {
"foo": true,
"bar": false
}
}
And access them in your plugin like so:
def foo_enabled?
settings['my_custom_plugin']['foo']
end
This plugin provides basic Sensu Go enablement support to make it possible to continue to use existing Sensu plugin handlers and mutators for Sensu Core 1.x event model in a backwards compatible fashion.
The provided mutator command mutator-sensu-go-into-ruby.rb
will mutate the Sensu Go event into a form compatible for handlers written to consume Sensu Core 1.x events. Users may find this mutator useful until such time that community plugin handler are updated to support Sensu Go event model directly.
Sensu plugins which provide either mutators or handlers can benefit from provided Sensu Go enablement support in the form of mixin commandline option support. Once plugins update to the latest sensu-plugin version, all mutator and handler commands will automatically grow an additional commandline argument --map_go_event_into_ruby
For backwards compatibility, you can store custom entity and check attributes as a json string in a specially named annotation. By default the annotation key is sensu.io.json_attributes
, but can be overridden using the environment variable MAP_ANNOTATION
. The json string stored in the MAP_ANNOTATION
key will be converted into a ruby hash and merged into the ruby event hash object as part of the event mapping.
bundle exec rake test
You may run individual tests by executing bundle exec rake test TEST=test/external_handler_test.rb
Copyright 2011 Decklin Foster
Released under the same terms as Sensu (the MIT license); see LICENSE for details.