Metrist Ruby In-Process Agent #

This Rails Plugin/Gem contains the Metrist In-Process Agent (IPA).

The goal of this agent is simple: all outgoing HTTP traffic gets intercepted and is sent off to the local Metrist Orchestrator, which sifts through the data and decides what to do with it.

It is kept very simple on purpose: it will time the call, and then send some elementary data to the host's agent per UDP. The overhead of this is in the order of microseconds, and an UDP send() will not block; this way, we can be sure that your application will not be impacted. All the heavy lifting is done in Orchestrator where it is fine if stuff gets delayed, dropped, or whatever.

Usage #

Just installing the Gem is enough. There is some optional configuration through the environment:

• METRIST_ORCHESTRATOR_HOST sets a hostname/IP to which telemetry data is to be sent. The default is localhost.
• METRIST_ORCHESTRATOR_PORT sets a port through which telemetry data is to be sent. The default is port 51712.

Rails usage #

When working with Rails, you probably already have most of your configuration in config/application.rb. If so, you can simply configure the Gem using:

MetristIpa.config do | c |
  c.host = "cma.prod.test.com"
  c.port = 12345
end

Installation #

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'metrist_ipa'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install metrist_ipa