check

go-check

go-check is a Golang library to help with development of monitoring plugins for tools like Icinga.

See the documentation on pkg.go.dev for more details and examples.

Usage

Simple Example

go-check includes everything to quickly create a CLI monitoring plugin:

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/NETWAYS/go-check"
)

func main() {
    // Global configuration of the plugin
    config := check.NewConfig()
    config.Name = "check_test"
    config.Readme = `Test Plugin`
    config.Version = "1.0.0"

    // Command line arguments
    _ = config.FlagSet.StringP("hostname", "H", "localhost", "Hostname to check")

    config.ParseArguments()

    // Handle exit with the desired exit code
    check.Exit(check.OK, fmt.Sprintf("Everything is fine - answer=%d", 42))
    // Output:
    // [OK] - Everything is fine - answer=42
}

Return Codes

The library provides predefined return or exit codes:

check.OK
check.Warning
check.Critical
check.Unknown

// These exit codes implement the Stringer interface
fmt.Println(check.OK)

To convert an integer or string into an exit code

unknown, err := NewStatus(3)

warning, err := NewStatusFromString("Warning")

See also: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html#AEN74

Exit

The Exit function can be used to cause an exit with the given status code.

check.Exit(check.OK, fmt.Sprintf("Everything is fine - value=%d", 42)) // OK, 0

// With perfdata
check.Exit(check.Critical, "CRITICAL", "|", "percent_packet_loss=100") // CRITICAL, 2

ExitError can be used to cause an exit with the given error.

err := fmt.Errorf("connection to %s has been timed out", "localhost:12345")

check.ExitError(err) // UNKNOWN, 3

Timeout Handling

HandleTimeout is a helper for a goroutine, to wait for signals and timeout, and exit with a proper code.

checkPluginTimeoutInSeconds := 10
go check.HandleTimeout(checkPluginTimeoutInSeconds)

Thresholds

Threshold objects represent monitoring plugin thresholds that have methods to evaluate if a given input is within the range.

They can be created with the ParseThreshold parser.

warnThreshold, err := check.ParseThreshold("~:3")

if err != nil {
    // Handle the error
}

if warnThreshold.DoesViolate(3.6) {
    fmt.Println("Not great, not terrible.")
}

See also: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT

Performance data

The Perfdata object represents monitoring plugin performance data that relates to the actual execution of a host or service check.

var pl perfdata.PerfdataList

pl.Add(&perfdata.Perfdata{
    Label: "process.cpu.percent",
    Value: 25,
    Uom:   "%",
    Warn:  50,
    Crit:  90,
    Min:   0,
    Max:   100})

fmt.Println(pl.String())

See also: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html#AEN197

WorstState

The WorstState helper can be used to determine the worst exit status from a set of exit states.

allStates = []check.Status{check.OK, check.Critical, check.Warning, check.Unknown}

switch result.WorstState(allStates...) {
case 0:
    rc = check.OK
case 1:
    rc = check.Warning
case 2:
    rc = check.Critical
default:
    rc = check.Unknown
}

Overall and Partial Results

The Overall and PartialResult objects can be used to represent a simple parent-child relationship.

An Overall can contain multiple subchecks. The final exit of the Overall will be automatically determined by the worst state of a PartialResult.

o := Overall{}
o.Add(0, "Something is OK")

pr := PartialResult{
    Output: "My Subcheck",
}

if err := pr.SetState(check.OK); err != nil {
  fmt.Printf(%s, err)
}

o.AddSubcheck(pr)

fmt.Println(o.GetOutput())

// states: ok=1
// [OK] Something is OK
// \_ [OK] My Subcheck

Examples

A few plugins using go-check:

• check_prometheus
• check_system_basics
• check_logstash
• check_sentinelone

License

Copyright (c) 2020 NETWAYS GmbH

This library is distributed under the GPL-2.0 or newer license found in the COPYING file.