Setting up external monitoring with collectd

Configure external monitoring systems to collect and analyze collectd metrics from your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

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Set up an external collectd server

If you haven't already set up an external collectd server, you will need to do so before enabling collectd forwarding on Ihre GitHub Enterprise Server-Instance. Your collectd server must be running collectd version 5.x or higher.

  1. Log into your collectd server.
  2. Create or edit the collectd configuration file to load the network plugin and populate the server and port directives with the proper values. On most distributions, this is located at /etc/collectd/collectd.conf

An example collectd.conf to run a collectd server:

LoadPlugin network
...
...
<Plugin network>
    Listen "0.0.0.0" "25826"
</Plugin>

Enabling collectd forwarding on GitHub Enterprise

By default, collectd forwarding is disabled on GitHub Enterprise. Follow the steps below to enable and configure collectd forwarding:

  1. Klicke in einem Verwaltungskonto für GitHub Enterprise Server in der rechten oberen Ecke einer beliebigen Seite auf .

  2. Wenn du dich nicht bereits auf der Seite „Websiteadministrator“ befindest, klicke in der oberen linken Ecke auf Websiteadministrator.

  3. Klicke in der Randleiste „ Site admin“ auf Verwaltungskonsole.

  4. Below the log forwarding settings, select Enable collectd forwarding.

  5. In the Server address field, type the address of the collectd server to which you'd like to forward GitHub Enterprise appliance statistics.

  6. In the Port field, type the port used to connect to the collectd server. (Defaults to 25826)

  7. In the Cryptographic setup dropdown menu, select the security level of communications with the collectd server. (None, signed packets, or encrypted packets.)

  8. Klicke auf der Randleiste unter „Einstellungen“ auf Einstellungen speichern.

    Hinweis

    Durch das Speichern von Einstellungen in der Verwaltungskonsole werden Systemdienste neu gestartet, was zu einer für den Benutzer feststellbaren Downtime führen könnte.

  9. Warten Sie auf den Abschluss der Konfigurationsausführung.

Troubleshooting

Central collectd server receives no data

GitHub Enterprise ships with collectd version 5.x. collectd 5.x is not backwards compatible with the 4.x release series. Your central collectd server needs to be at least version 5.x to accept data sent from Ihre GitHub Enterprise Server-Instance.

For help with further questions or issues, visit GitHub Enterprise Support.