Alas, only if migration from CentOS 6 to 7 was in my hand :P. But thanks for the suggestion, will give process exporter a try.
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 2:50:39 AM UTC+5:30, Christian Hoffmann wrote: > > Hi, > > On 3/31/20 12:22 PM, Yagyansh S. Kumar wrote: > > Hi. We have systemd collector in Prometheus that enables us to get the > > metrics - status of services from systemd. This works well in CentOS 7. > > But CentOS 6 does not have systemd, hence, the collector keeps throwing > > error. Is there any alternative for this for CentOS 6? > > I don't think there is any alternative which is as integrated/powerful > as systemd is on CentOS 7 and onwards. > There are lots of service supervisors. Technically, CentOS 6 uses > Upstart. However, almost no service seemed to make use of it, not even > system ones. Instead, most of the services were plain old SysV init > scripts. For those, there is no such supervision or integrated API for > monitoring. > > Basically, I would go for process-based monitoring in this case (using > process_exporter). > > On the other hand, support for CentOS 6 will end in only a few months so > I guess any efforts should be invested regarding migrations towards > CentOS 7 or 8... > > Kind regards, > Christian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/9b7330d0-ee3c-4eb6-a6b8-9a2f32107095%40googlegroups.com.
