[spaceman10]

Hi, I want to love this product. This will be the 3rd or 4th time I have looked at the docs to figure out basic setup.

Each time I look into this. I look to see how it can report CPU/Memory/Disk of the systems at large. When I read, all I find on open telemetry and SigNoz is how to integrate with application stacks.

Am I missing something fundamental in that SygNoz/OpenTelemetry do not integrate with host level metrics? I really, really want to use this product. But this extremely BASIC implementation to use the service is 100% missing for documentation as far as I can tell. Even the example page has nothing listed https://signoz.io/docs/tutorials/ ...

So I am either trying to find out how to make SygNoz do something it was not built to do... or the documentation has a huge hole in it.

Let me know how to proceed, if you have time. It's appreciated so that I dont keep walking down the wrong road and hoping to find something useful.

Thanks!

[pranay01]

Hey, thanks for writing. Our initial focus was on application monitoring - that is why docs are more oriented towards it. But I can understand you may find it tough to understand for infra metrics (CPU/Memory/Disk)

As of now, there are couple of ways to do this: 1. You can enable hostmetrics receiver in opentelemetry collector 2. You can use something like prometheus node exporter and enable prometheus receiver in opentelemetry collector

If you follow this for a VM setup, you should be able to get your host metrics - https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/send-metrics/#enable-a-spec...

If you are on k8s, check out this - https://signoz.io/docs/tutorial/kubernetes-infra-metrics/

If it is still confusing, do drop by in our slack community ( https://signoz.io/slack) We are quite active there and should be able to help you get started

[spaceman10]

Many thanks. I took notice of your prometheus mention and had also seen that peppered in the docs for both services (openT and SigN) as a way to gather data.

As time investment is a dangerous thing I didn't plop myself down for some R&D... But... thanks to your post I'll have another go at it and determine how to get it to hum.

Thanks again!

[pranay01]

Awesome! Do let us know if you face any issues, should be fairly simple to do. We are on slack at https://signoz.io/slack if you need any help