How to monitor an OpenSearchServer instance

Using API calls

You can call a dedicated API to get monitoring information about your instance.

Simply make a GET request on http://<host>:<port>/services/rest/monitor/json?full=true.

This provides such useful data as free disk space, memory use, etc.

If you only want basic information do not send the ?full=true parameter.
If you want to get results in XML instead of JSON use http://<host>:<port>/services/rest/monitor/xml?full=true.

Using OpenSearchServer to regularly post monitoring data to an URL

This requires OpenSearchServer > 1.5.10

Using the Scheduler you can quickly set up a task that regularly posts monitoring information to a particular URL.

To do so:

• Go to the Scheduler tab
• Click "Create new scheduler job"
  • Give a name to the job
  • Check the Enabled checkbox
  • Configure a CRON expression, following these guidelines: http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.x/tutorials/crontrigger
  • Add one task: Monitoring upload
    • This task perfoms a POST request to the given URL.
    • HTTP authentication can be used with the parameters Login and Password.
    • The body of the request will be a text string with all monitoring information concatenated.
    • An additionnal detail called Instance ID can be added to the body of the request. This can be useful for example to identify the instance making the request.
    • Here is a truncated example of the body of a request:

instanceId=productionInstance&version=OpenSearchServer+v1.5.10-SNAPSHOT+-+build+98d156cdbb&availableProcessors=4&freeMemory=424985328&freeMemoryRate=22.61705313410078&maxMemory=1879048192&totalMemory=698875904&indexCount=61&freeDiskSpace=30216572928&freeDiskRate=28.81705882750464&dataDirectoryPath=E%3A%5CCopensearchserver%5Cdata&property_java_runtime_name=Java%28TM%29+SE+Runtime+Environment...

Here is an example of a job that will make a POST request every 10 minutes:

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