Monitoring tools

This section will guide you how to monitor your Solr server using Agent based health checks using robust monitoring tools such as Opsview, New Relic, and SPM.

Opsview

Let us assume that you already have Opsview or Opsview VMWare Appliance installed and have completed the Quick Start guidelines.

If not, don't panic! You may refer http://www.opsview.com/technology/downloads to download the installer of Opsview and/or Opsview VMWare Appliance, and http://docs.opsview.com/doku.php?id=opsview3.14:quickstart for the Quick Start guidelines.

In this section, we will cover how and where to fetch and install the Solr-specific plugin, how to set up service check, host configuration, and understand the check results.

Solr-specific plugin

In this topic, we will guide you on how to install the Solr-specific plugin within a few keyboard hits.

Install the Solr plugin from https://github.com/surendra-mohan/solr-checks-opsview into /usr/local/nagios/libexec/. The solr_check plugin is Perl based...