Observability Platform GMonit Lite (APM)

GMonit observability platform is a universal AI-based system for monitoring and management of metrics, events, logs, and traces.

GMonit Lite features:

• Collection and aggregation of key service performance metrics without any source code adaptations: supports all major software development platforms, including Java, .NET, Ruby, Go, Python, Node.js, C++, Elixir. Tracking platform-specific metrics such as the performance parameters of JVM, .NET, Go, etc.
• Keeping users notified about information system incidents through a broad spectrum of messaging channels, including SMS, Email, Telegram, and others.
• Tracking the service’s interactions with external systems: visualization of key interaction metrics such as request execution time, number of requests, etc.
• Automatic map of services: visualization of links between IT system components for a graphic representation of interactions between them.

For more details about GMonit, visit the official website at gmonit.ru.

Prior to installation

For installation, you need two domain names: one for the GMonit collector and one for the GMonit UI (Grafana). Here is an example:

• GMonit collector: gmonit-collector.your-company.ru.
• Gmonit UI (Grafana): gmonit.your-company.ru.

Where your-company is your second-level domain.

Installation

1. Get an SSH key pair for connection to a virtual machine.

2. Create a VM from a public image:

   1. Under Boot disk image on the Marketplace tab, enter GMonit in the Product search field and select the GMonit Lite observability platform (APM) public image.

   2. Under Access:

      • In the Login field, specify gmonit: the user with this login is authorized to run GMonit.
      • In the SSH key field, select from the list the SSH key you got earlier.

   3. Click Create VM.

   Save the VM public IP address.

3. Connect to the VM over SSH:

   ssh gmonit@<VM_public_IP_address>
   

4. Go the GMonit image folder:

   cd /home/gmonit/gmonit-lite
   

5. Create a file named .env using the .env.example:

   cp .env.example .env
   

6. Fill out the .env file:

   • SECRET_TOKEN: Random string of 32 characters. Use your own variant or generate it using this command:

     openssl rand -base64 24 | head -c 32
     

   • GRAFANA_DOMAIN: Domain for Gmonit UI (Grafana), e.g., gmonit.your-company.ru.

   • COLLECTOR_DOMAIN: Domain for the GMonit collector, e.g., gmonit-collector.your-company.ru.

   • GRAFANA_ADMIN_PASSWORD: Password for the admin login in Grafana. Use your own variant or generate it using this command:

     openssl rand -base64 15 | head -c 20
     

   • BASIC_AUTH_PASS: Password for Grafana authorization in the collector. Use your own variant or generate it using this command:

     openssl rand -base64 15 | head -c 20
     

   • LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL: Email for notifications about issues with Let’s Encrypt certificates.

7. Run GMonit:

   docker compose up -d
   

For a detailed guide on installing monitoring agents, refer to the official GMonit documentation.

• Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
• Monitoring interactions with external services: payment gateways, messaging providers, external applications, ERP, other.
• Application monitoring as part of migration to Yandex Cloud.
• Import substitution of New Relic, Datadog, Instana, AppDynamics, Dynatrace.

GMonit
You can contact GMonit support team at support@gmonit.ru.

Yandex Cloud
Yandex Cloud does not provide technical support for this product. If you have any issues, please refer to the vendor’s information resources.