Server monitoring agent

To collect hardware information from your servers, you need Capture, a server monitoring agent for Checkmate. Capture receives requests from Checkmate (server), and sends the necessary infrastructure status data, eg CPU, RAM, disk or network packet information.

When Capture runs on the remote server, it starts collecting hardware information from the host machine and exposes it through a RESTful API. The agent is designed to be lightweight and easy to use.

Capture is available for Linux, Windows, Mac, Raspberry PI or any device that can run Go.

Features

• CPU Monitoring

  • Temperature

  • Load

  • Frequency

  • Usage

• Memory Monitoring

• Disk Monitoring

  • Usage

  • Inode Usage

  • Read/Write Bytes

• S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)

• Network Monitoring

• Docker Container Monitoring

• GPU Monitoring (coming soon)

Warning: S.M.A.R.T. monitoring is only available when using binary installation (not Docker). It also requires the smartmontools package to be installed on your system, as Capture relies on the smartctl utility for collecting S.M.A.R.T. data. Install smartmontools using your system's package manager (e.g., apt install smartmontools for Debian/Ubuntu, yum install smartmontools for CentOS/RHEL). Note: S.M.A.R.T. monitoring is not supported in Docker installations.

Docker Installation

Docker installation is recommended for running the Capture. Please see the Docker run flags section for more information.

Pull the image from the registry and then run it with one command.

docker run -v /etc/os-release:/etc/os-release:ro \
    -p 59232:59232 \
    -e API_SECRET=REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SECRET \
    -d \
    ghcr.io/bluewave-labs/capture:latest

If you don't want to pull the image, you can build and run it locally.

docker buildx build -f Dockerfile -t capture .

docker run -v /etc/os-release:/etc/os-release:ro \
    -p 59232:59232 \
    -e API_SECRET=REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SECRET \
    -d \
    capture:latest

Docker run flags

Before running the container, please make sure to replace the REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SECRET with your own secret.

! You need to put this secret to Checkmate's infrastructure monitoring dashboard

• -v /etc/os-release:/etc/os-release:ro to get platform information correctly

• -p 59232:59232 to expose the port 59232

• -d to run the container in detached mode

• -e API_SECRET=REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SECRET to set the API secret

• (optional) -e GIN_MODE=release/debug to switch between release and debug mode

docker run -v /etc/os-release:/etc/os-release:ro \
    -p 59232:59232 \
    -e API_SECRET=REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SECRET \
    -d \
    ghcr.io/bluewave-labs/capture:latest

System Installation

Pre-built Binaries

You can download the pre-built binaries from the GitHub Releases page.

Recommended installation path is /usr/local/bin.

Do not forget to make the binary executable.

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/capture

Go Package

You can install the Capture using the go install command.

go install github.com/bluewave-labs/capture/cmd/capture@latest

Build from Source

You can build the Capture from the source code.

Prerequisites

• Git is essential for cloning the repository.

• Go is required to build the project.

• Just is optional but recommended for building the project with pre-defined commands.

Steps

1. Clone the repository

   git clone [email protected]:bluewave-labs/capture

2. Change the directory

   cd capture

3. Build the Capture

   just build

   or

   go build -o dist/capture ./cmd/capture/

4. Run the Capture

   ./dist/capture

Environment Variables

Configure the capture with the following environment variables:

Variable	Description	Required/Optional	Type	Default Value	Accepted Values
API_SECRET	The secret key for the API	Required	string	-	Any string value
PORT	The port that the Capture listens on	Optional	integer	59232	0 - 65535
GIN_MODE	The mode of the Gin framework	Optional	string	system -> debug docker -> release	release, debug

Example

Please make sure to replace the default your_secret with your own secret.

! You need to put this secret to Checkmate's infrastructure monitoring dashboard

PORT = your_port
API_SECRET = your_secret
GIN_MODE = release/debug

# API_SECRET is required
API_SECRET=your_secret GIN_MODE=release ./capture

# Minimal required configuration
API_SECRET=your_secret ./dist/capture