Connect Everything You Monitor

When the Glouton agent detects a service, several things happen automatically. First, the service receives a service_status metric that tracks availability with values from 0 (OK) to 3 (unknown/timeout). This metric triggers default alerts if the service becomes unavailable — no configuration needed.

Second, the agent begins collecting service-specific metrics that go far beyond simple availability. For a MySQL database, you get queries per second, slow queries, connection pool usage, buffer pool hit ratio, and replication lag. For Nginx, you get active connections, requests per second, response status codes, and upstream response times. For Redis, you get memory usage, key eviction rates, connected clients, and command latency. Each integration has its own set of curated metrics designed by monitoring engineers who understand what matters for that technology.

Third, Bleemeo automatically creates a tag for each detected service. Tags make it easy to filter dashboards, scope alert rules, and organize your infrastructure. A server running MySQL, Nginx, and Redis automatically gets three service tags, which you can use to create targeted notification rules — send database alerts to the DBA team, web server alerts to the platform team.

Finally, pre-built dashboards populate with the collected metrics as soon as data starts flowing. You don't need to build dashboards from scratch for common services. The agent dashboard for each server includes a Services tab showing all detected services and their key metrics at a glance.