The sniclient only covers basic measurements. These are already part of the Checkmk agent (ok, not where the agent could not be installed).
nice:
go_goroutines 7
not so nice:
go_gc_duration_seconds{quantile=“0.75”} 0.000276884
uuhh:
node_filesystem_files{device=“zroot/ROOT/default”,fstype=“zfs”,mountpoint=“/”} 1.069231e+07
I think it would be much more useful in cases where an exporter provides data where we do not have a plugin for the agent.
I’m dreaming about a solution where on can enter a keyword (a line in the exporter data) and a unit and a field how to calculate things with the given value.
This might be not useful when JSON data or whatever is proided by the exporter. But…
Next dream:
If the community would have a kind of interface somewhere (github?) where these pairs (keyword, unit, command) can be entered, we could build up a fast growing database which can be used in a Checkmk datasource for exporters.
Is that understandable?
Why not start with the easy ones?