Monitoring asterisk with netdata

[billsimon]

Someone tipped me off to Netdata, an open-source monitoring & alerting tool with a cloud option. It’s another way you can monitor your server besides Zabbix, Prometheus/Grafana, SNMP, and others.

Asterisk monitoring with Netdata | Learn Netdata

I set it up to test. Easy if you are using a DIY build on Debian:

• apt install netdata
• edit /etc/netdata/netdata.conf and bind to an IP or just bind to localhost if you want to tunnel or proxy
• copy the statsd.conf referenced in the article to /etc/asterisk and restart to load the statsd module
• (build and then) load the res_chan_stats and res_endpoint_stats modules
• copy the asterisk.conf file referenced in the article to /etc/netdata/statsd.d directory
• look at your stats at http://pbx:19999

Of course you get all the standard server vitals, too, not just asterisk stats.

[lgaetz (Lorne Gaetz)]

Good stuff @billsimon. Thanks!

For the distro SNG7, I got it running by doing:

 yum -y install netdata

Edit the file /etc/netdata/netdata.conf with

bind to = 0.0.0.0

Restart the netdata service with

systemctl restart netdata.service

Create the file /etc/asterisk/statsd.conf with the content from the link above provided. Fix ownership and restart asterisk with

fwconsole chown
fwconsole restart

You’re done. Browse to http://<serveraddress>:19999

edit - I wasn’t seeing any Asterisk statsd statistics until I grabbed the following file restarted services:

cd /etc/netdata
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netdata/netdata/master/collectors/apps.plugin/apps_groups.conf
systemctl restart netdata.service

Once the above file is in place, Asterisk stats show up in the statsd section of the dashboard toward the bottom.