github.com/observiq/bindplane-agent@v1.51.0/config/google_cloud_exporter/hostmetrics/README.md (about)

     1  # Host Metrics with Google Cloud
     2  
     3  The Host Metrics Receiver can be used to send system metrics from an agent host to Google Cloud Monitoring.
     4  
     5  ## Prerequisites
     6  
     7  See the [prerequisites](../README.md) doc for Google Cloud prerequisites.
     8  
     9  ## Configuration
    10  
    11  An example configuration is located [here](./config.yaml).
    12  
    13  1. Copy [config.yaml](./config.yaml) to `/opt/observiq-otel-collector/config.yaml`
    14  2. Restart the agent: `sudo systemctl restart observiq-otel-collector`
    15  
    16  ## Setup
    17  
    18  Host Metrics does not have setup requirements.
    19  
    20  ## Process metrics
    21  
    22  The host metrics receiver supports per process cpu, memory, disk, and network metrics. This feature requires elevated privileges. On Linux, you must update the service configuration to run the agent as the root user. See the [installation documentation](https://github.com/observIQ/bindplane-agent/blob/main/docs/installation-linux.md#configuring-the-agent) for instructions.