Getting started¶
SenHub turns the metrics your monitoring tool can't collect natively into a single endpoint you can plug in anywhere. Here is the shortest path from zero to a metric flowing into your tool.
1. Create a vault¶
A vault securely stores the credentials a connector uses to reach your service. Open Vaults, click Add, pick the vault type matching the connector you want, and fill in the credentials. Some connectors (public status pages, for example) need no vault — you can skip this step for those.
→ Vaults
2. Deploy an instance from the store¶
Open the Store, pick the application you want to monitor and click the + button. Fill in the form: a name, the vault from step 1 if the connector requires one, and the connector-specific options.
3. Copy the endpoint¶
Go to Instances and select your new instance. Its Endpoint is the URL your monitoring tool will call, and the Copy button puts it on your clipboard. Each endpoint carries a Token you can renew at any time without recreating the instance.
4. Plug it into your monitoring tool¶
Paste the endpoint into your tool and you're done. SenHub can return the data in raw JSON or in the native format of PRTG, Nagios, Centreon, Prometheus or Zabbix — pick the format on the instance and the endpoint adapts automatically.
Your tool is now collecting metrics through SenHub.