Start monitoring.

Usage

The 'start-monitoring' command creates a database where cluster information is stored and establishes pipelines for streaming data into it.

The 'sdb-admin start-monitoring' command must be run on the Master Aggregator host of the cluster in which to store the monitoring data (the Metrics cluster).

The Metrics cluster may be the same as the Source cluster.

The 'sdb-admin configure-monitoring' command must be run on the Master Aggregator of the Source (monitored) cluster before running the current command.

The 'sdb-admin start-monitoring' command will recreate the associated pipelines each time the command is run.

SingleStoreDB 7.1.8 is the minimum version required to run 'start-monitoring'.

Usage:
  sdb-admin start-monitoring [flags]

Flags:
      --batch-interval MILLISECONDS       Time interval between data collections in milliseconds (default 15000)
      --database-name string              Monitoring database name (default "metrics")
      --disable-sample-queries            Disables queries sampling
      --exporter-host string              Host where memsql_exporter is run (on the Source cluster)
      --exporter-port PORT                Port where memsql_exporter is run (on the Source cluster) (default 9104)
  -h, --help                              Help for start-monitoring
      --high-cardinality-metrics          Collect high cardinality metrics. It is recommended to set --batch-interval to at least 60000 if high-cardinality-metrics is enabled
      --monitoring-version string         Version of the cluster running monitoring
      --password string                   The database user's password for connecting to SingleStoreDB (on the Metrics cluster). If a password is specified on the command line, it must not contain an unescaped '$' character as it will be replaced by the shell
      --purge-frequency MINUTES           Time between purges of expired monitoring data for a specific Source cluster (default 60)
      --purge-log-retention-period DAYS   Period of time to retain purge log entries (ADVANCED) (default 365)
      --retention-period DAYS             Period of time to retain monitoring data for a specific Source cluster (default 7)
      --ssl-ca string                     Path to the CA certificate to use for HTTPS. If specified, the pipelines will attempt to connect to the exporter via HTTPS. The certificate must exist on all hosts containing a leaf node
      --ssl-capath string                 Path to the directory containing CA certificates to use for HTTPS. If specified, the pipelines will attempt to connect to the exporter on the Source cluster via HTTPS. The directory must exist on all hosts containing a leaf node
      --user string                       The database user for connecting to SingleStoreDB (on the Metrics cluster) (default "root")

Global Flags:
      --backup-cache FILE_PATH                File path for the backup cache
      --cache-file FILE_PATH                  File path for the Toolbox node cache
  -c, --config FILE_PATH                      File path for the Toolbox configuration
      --disable-colors                        Disable color output in console, which some terminal sessions/environments may have difficulty with
      --disable-spinner                       Disable the progress spinner, which some terminal sessions/environments may have issues with
  -j, --json                                  Enable JSON output
      --parallelism POSITIVE_INTEGER          Maximum number of operations to run in parallel
      --runtime-dir DIRECTORY_PATH            Where to store Toolbox runtime data
      --ssh-control-persist SECONDS           Enable SSH ControlPersist and set it to the specified duration in seconds
      --ssh-max-sessions POSITIVE_INTEGER     Maximum number of SSH sessions to open per host, must be at least 3
      --ssh-strict-host-key-checking          Enable strict host key checking for SSH connections
      --ssh-user-known-hosts-file FILE_PATH   Path to the user known_hosts file for SSH connections. If not set, /dev/null will be used
      --state-file FILE_PATH                  Toolbox state file path
  -v, --verbosity count                       Increase logging verbosity: valid values are 1, 2, 3. Usage -v=count or --verbosity=count
  -y, --yes                                   Enable non-interactive mode and assume the user would like to move forward with the proposed actions by default

Remarks

This command is interactive unless you use either the --yes or --json flags to override interactive behavior.

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