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Monitoring KVM virtual machine using virt-top

rajeshm
Explorer

Hi

For monitoring linux OS top.sh is used in splunk forwarderer.

Is any script available for monitoring KVM virtual machine......?
for monitoring KVM virtual machine we use virt-top command in linux.how to bring output of same virt-top command in splunk....?

We tried by giving the parameter in input.conf file,but it didnot worked.

Regards

Rajesh

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Damien_Dallimor
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You could quite easily create your own scripted input.
This might simply be a Bash script that invokes virt-top, formats the command output using awk and then outputs to STD OUT where Splunk will pick up the data.
You could even use one of the Splunk for *Nix app scripts as an example.

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