Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering. For more information visit memcached.org .
This functionality is only available for agents running on Linux. It is not available on Windows.
Discovery
Even if the memcached plugin is not configured, Cloud Monitoring will discover memcached services running in your Cloud Platform project by:
- Searching instance names for memcached
- Checking for ports opened to 11211via firewall rules
To see the metrics for Memcached, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the
Dashboards
page:If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring .
- Select the Memcacheddashboard from the list.
Configuring Monitoring to monitor memcached
After you install the monitoring agent , use the following instructions to configure the memcached plugin on your instances.
Enabling the memcached monitoring plugin
On your VM instance, download memcached.conf
from the GitHub configuration repository
and place it in the directory /etc/stackdriver/collectd.d/
:
(cd /etc/stackdriver/collectd.d/ && sudo curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stackdriver/stackdriver-agent-service-configs/master/etc/collectd.d/memcached.conf)
After adding the configuration file, restart the monitoring agent by running the following command:
sudo service stackdriver-agent restart
For more information on the collectd
memcached
plugin, see Plugin:memcached
.
What is monitored
The full list of metrics the Memcached plugin monitors is at Agent metrics: memcached .
