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#Example of a PowerShell external collector. See http://bosun.org/scollector/external-collectors for details #This file should be saved in C:\Program Files\scollector\collectors\0\mymetrics.ps1 since it is a continuous output script #scollector.toml should have ColDir = 'C:\Program Files\scollecto...

The following can be saved as main.go. After you update the EDITME settings and build the executable it can be used as a continuous external collector. package main import ( "fmt" "log" "net/url" "strconv" "time" &...

This is a continuous collector that uses the hadoop fs -du -s /hbase/* command to get details about the HDFS disk usage. This metric is very useful for tracking space in an OpenTSDB system. #!/bin/bash while true; do while read -r bytes raw_bytes path; do echo "hdfs.du $(date +&...

The following Go file can be compiled into a continuous external collector that will query a MSSQL server database that uses the StackExchange.Exceptional schema. It will query multiple servers/databases for all exceptions since UTC 00:00 to convert the raw entries into a counter. It also uses the b...

<# .DESCRIPTION Writes the metric out in bosun external collector format which is compatible with scollector external scripts .PARAMETER metric Name of the metric (eg : my.metric) .PARAMETER type Type of metric (counter, gauge, etc) .PARAMETER unit ...