Justin and I have recently started using Zabbix for monitoring, in place of Nagios. We’ve also taken the opportunity to start collecting even more metrics than before.

One nice thing about Zabbix is that it can use pre-existing Nagios monitoring plugins out of the box. But what if you also want to collect metrics from say, a Ruby process? You’re in luck! Zabbix can collect various forms of information (from numerical metrics to arbitrary strings, to log data) via the Zabbix sender protocol. Let’s set this up.

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