Pingdom Collect Slice
Overview
Pingdom offers you a single platform solution to monitor the availability and performance of your websites, servers or web applications.
Steps to add this slice to your installation
The steps to launch your slice are:
- Generate Pingdom application key
- Specify the slice config
- Add the Pingdom slice
1. Generate Pingdom application key
Setup requirements
Before getting started please make sure to have the following information:
- Access to an active Pingdom account
Setup instructions
- Generate a new Pingdom application key a. Open https://my.pingdom.com/account/appkeys b. Click "register application" button c. Fill inputs and click "register" d. Copy application key
2. Specify the slice config
To get a template for the Pingdom slice configuration save the output of the describe --input-parameters
command as follows:
Necessary input parameters:
username
- your Pingdom usernamepassword
- your Pingdom passwordtoken
- your Pingdom application key
Optional input parameters:
schedule
- in cron formattags
- Tag list separated by commas. As an example "nginx,apache" would filter out all responses except those tagged nginx or apache.Example templates:
- collect all active metrics
Modify the pingdom_parameters_file
file to add the token generated from Pingdom
3. Add the Slice
slice-name
Name of your slice. A schema with your slice-name is automatically created in your warehouseparams-file
File path to your input parameters file. Ex. pingdom_parameters_file.json
Supported load units
actions
checkdetail
checks
probes
summaryaverage
summaryaveragebycountry
summaryaveragebyprobe
summaryoutage
Slice output
Output of this slice is stored in S3 and Redshift.
AWS S3
Data stored in AWS S3 is partitioned by date and time in the following bucket
s3://datacoral-data-bucket/<sliceName>
AWS Redshift: Schema - schema name will be same as a slice-name. Tables produced by the slice are:
Questions? Interested?
If you have questions or feedback, feel free to reach out at hello@datacoral.co or Request a demo