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.
Discovery
Even if the memcached plugin is not configured, Stackdriver Monitoring will discover memcached services running in your Cloud Platform project by:
- Searching instance names for memcached
- Checking for ports opened to 11211 via firewall rules
The services discovered are displayed on the memcached Services page in the Resources menu. After you install the monitoring agent and configure the memcached plugin on your instances, Monitoring populates the memcached Services page with inventory and metrics.
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 /opt/stackdriver/collectd/etc/collectd.d/
:
(cd /opt/stackdriver/collectd/etc/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.