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Monitoring External Services with SigNoz HTTP Check

TLDR Robin asked if it’s possible to monitor external services without instrumenting the app. Pranay and Vishal guided them through monitoring HTTP endpoints, setting up collectors, and managing dashboards.

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May 24, 2023 (5 days ago)

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Robin

08:36 AM

Hi, I’m new to SigNoz and have a question: Is it possible to only run a external service without the ‘instrument your app’? So SigNoz makes a call every X seconds/minutes and checks the responsetime of a call and create my own calls?

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Pranay

10:46 AM

is this something similar to what you are trying Robin - https://signoz.io/docs/monitor-http-endpoints/

Robin

10:48 AM

Yes!

11:11

Robin

11:11 AM

Okay, I followed the instructions and added the httpcheck receiver to otel-collector-config.yaml receiver section and services > pipeline > metrics recievers.

I did a docker-compose down and up -d but the metric isn’t being shown as a service?

11:11

Robin

11:11 AM

Where can I find / test the metric? At traces?

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Vishal

11:17 AM

You can open dashboard and add a graph panel plotted with http metrics.
https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/manage-dashboards/

Robin

12:09 PM

Thanks! Still have to figure out a few things but this helps a lot.

12:10

Robin

12:10 PM

btw; is it possible to give a body with a request?

12:16

Robin

12:16 PM

As in, I need to get a authenticated request

May 25, 2023 (4 days ago)

Vishal

07:32 AM

It’s not possible to give a body with a request.
Here are the metrics which are available: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/receiver/httpcheckreceiver/documentation.md

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