You can create your own metrics to track by adding metric definitions to ‘actianmonitor-custom-metrics.yaml’ located in your installation’s config directory. To enable this feature, edit the ‘docker-compose.yaml’ and remove the # in front of the line:

Custom metrics are only read during startup. Actian Monitor will need to be restarted (i.e. docker compose down / docker compose up) after editing the file.

The docker log will indicate which custom metrics have been loaded. For example, if you enable these example customer metrics, expect to see these corresponding log entries during the Actian Monitor startup:

If there are any errors in the custom metric YAML file, these will display in the docker compose log (the Actian Monitor log file is also stored the logs directory) and the Actian Monitor will not start.

Metric Producer parameters and descriptions:

Metrics parameters and descriptions:

It is required that the regex can extract values and attributes when parse=regex . This can generate multiple metrics with different attributes if the commmand returns multiple output lines.

Metrics can also have a list of attribute names. These should each have a corresponding group name in the regex. It is not considered an error if an attribute is not supplied.