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| Filter the list by name or by status to find the servers that went quiet. A host's detail page charts CPU, memory, filesystem per mountpoint, network per device and the 15-minute load, next to its <code>os.type</code>, <code>host.arch</code>, <code>cloud.provider</code> and <code>cloud.region</code>. The cloud fields fill in when you add the <code>ec2</code>, <code>gcp</code> or <code>azure</code> detector to <code>resourcedetection</code>. | ||
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| The system logs land on the <a href="/docs/explore/logs">Logs</a> page under the service <code>system-logs</code>. For Windows hosts, the same Collector approach is in the <a href="/guides/windows-server-monitoring">Windows server monitoring guide</a>. |
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Link to /guides/windows-server-monitoring 404s; that page is not in the repo
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apps/landing/src/pages/guides/ holds no windows-server-monitoring.astro at this head, so if this merges before the parallel Windows guide, every reader who follows the cross-link from the Hosts section lands on a 404. Drop the link until that page exists, or land that PR first.
Either merge the Windows guide first, or replace the sentence with a version that has no link, e.g. "For Windows hosts, the same Collector approach applies with the Windows `hostmetrics` receivers."
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In `apps/landing/src/pages/guides/remote-server-monitoring.astro:515`: Link to `/guides/windows-server-monitoring` 404s; that page is not in the repo.
`apps/landing/src/pages/guides/` holds no `windows-server-monitoring.astro` at this head, so if this merges before the parallel Windows guide, every reader who follows the cross-link from the Hosts section lands on a 404. Drop the link until that page exists, or land that PR first.
Suggested fix: Either merge the Windows guide first, or replace the sentence with a version that has no link, e.g. "For Windows hosts, the same Collector approach applies with the Windows `hostmetrics` receivers."
Verify the problem exists at that location before changing it, and keep the fix to those lines.
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| <h3>Heartbeat rule per server</h3> | ||
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| Open <strong>Alerts</strong>, click <strong>New rule</strong>, choose <strong>Start blank</strong> and set the signal to <strong>Raw SQL</strong>: | ||
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| <pre><code>{heartbeatSql}</code></pre> | ||
| <ul class="guide-list"> | ||
| <li><strong>Reduce buckets by</strong> Sum, <strong>Condition</strong> <code><</code>, <strong>Threshold</strong> <code>1</code>.</li> | ||
| <li><strong>Window (min)</strong> 5 and <strong>Min samples</strong> 1. The app default of 50 would skip every check, because each bucket counts as one sample.</li> | ||
| <li><strong>Alert when there is no data</strong> on.</li> | ||
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| With the default of two <strong>Breaches to fire</strong>, the rule opens an incident a couple of minutes after the five-minute window empties. To manage one rule per server, create them from your config management with the <a href="/docs/alerting/alert-rules#create-a-rule-over-the-api">alert rules API</a>. |
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Replace the Raw SQL heartbeat recipe with supported external checks.
When heartbeatSql returns no rows, the grouped Raw SQL rule can create an all no-data breach. That breach can appear as an incident, but the grouped rule state cannot read the all key, and grouped no-data alerting is unsupported. The recipe is therefore misleading. Disabling no-data would make it ineffective because the threshold receives no observation.
Remove this recipe and direct readers to the existing external http_check configuration, which runs independently of the monitored server.
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- A pushed metric that stops arriving looks like no data at all, and most alert rules skip an empty window instead of firing. In Maple, a rule with <strong>Alert when there is no data</strong> switched on counts an empty window as a breach. The switch is not available on grouped rules: a group that stops reporting keeps its open incident until its telemetry returns, and a host that was healthy never opens one. So the heartbeat rule is one ungrouped rule per server you would want to be woken up for.
+ A pushed metric that stops arriving eventually produces no rows for a Raw SQL query. Raw SQL rules are grouped, so do not use a Raw SQL rule as a heartbeat. An empty result can create an <code>all</code> no-data incident, but grouped rules cannot read that state and grouped no-data alerting is unsupported. For an availability alert, configure the external <code>http_check</code> receiver shown in the <a href="#http-checks">HTTP checks for remote servers</a> section.
- <h3>Heartbeat rule per server</h3>
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- Open <strong>Alerts</strong>, click <strong>New rule</strong>, choose <strong>Start blank</strong> and set the signal to <strong>Raw SQL</strong>:
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- <pre><code>{heartbeatSql}</code></pre>
- <ul class="guide-list">
- <li><strong>Reduce buckets by</strong> Sum, <strong>Condition</strong> <code><</code>, <strong>Threshold</strong> <code>1</code>.</li>
- <li><strong>Window (min)</strong> 5 and <strong>Min samples</strong> 1. The app default of 50 would skip every check, because each bucket counts as one sample.</li>
- <li><strong>Alert when there is no data</strong> on.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>
- With the default of two <strong>Breaches to fire</strong>, the rule opens an incident a couple of minutes after the five-minute window empties. To manage one rule per server, create them from your config management with the <a href="/docs/alerting/alert-rules#create-a-rule-over-the-api">alert rules API</a>.
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Remove the “Heartbeat rule per server” Raw SQL recipe that renders heartbeatSql,
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Lead with agent vs agentless and the direction of each connection, add a diagram of the ports each method opens, tabbed SSH checks and rule SQL, the 0.163.1 component names, an ssh_check outside check, and alert SQL run against real host metrics. Add shell and sql to the guide highlighter.
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| href: "/guides/remote-server-monitoring", | ||
| label: "Infrastructure", | ||
| title: "Remote server monitoring with OpenTelemetry", | ||
| description: "Agent vs agentless and the ports each needs, a Collector setup with host metrics, logs, HTTP and SSH checks, and alerts for servers that go quiet.", | ||
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The seventh core guide leaves an empty cell at the xl breakpoint.
The new entry raises coreGuides from 6 to 7 cards. The grid uses md:grid-cols-2 xl:grid-cols-3. Line 221 makes the last card span 2 columns when the count is odd. That fills the 2-column md layout.
At xl the grid has 3 columns. The last row holds one card that spans 2 columns, so the third cell stays empty. The bg-border grid background shows through that cell as a solid block. The 6-card list filled both layouts.
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- index === coreGuides.length - 1 && coreGuides.length % 2 === 1 && "md:col-span-2",
+ index === coreGuides.length - 1 && coreGuides.length % 2 === 1 && "md:col-span-2",
+ index === coreGuides.length - 1 && coreGuides.length % 3 === 1 && "xl:col-span-3",
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Captures the Hosts list, a host's detail page and the heartbeat rule form, and names the rule form's fields as the form labels them.
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…ver-monitoring # Conflicts: # apps/landing/src/lib/guide-highlight.ts # apps/landing/src/pages/guides/index.astro # apps/landing/src/pages/llms.txt.ts
Maple review🟡 Confidence 6/10 · needs attention. Held at 6 because a correctness warning is open. Adds a remote server monitoring guide (agent vs agentless, Collector setup, heartbeat and threshold alert SQL), a
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Guide at
/guides/remote-server-monitoring.Covers
otelcol-contrib0.163.1 as a systemd service (deb and rpm) withhost_metrics+file_log, the env file and service user, a checker Collector withhttp_checkandssh_check, and one config for many servers (pinnedhost.name, templated env file)Search intent: people who need to watch servers they can't physically reach: what to collect, which approach to pick, and a working setup.
Maple docs linked:
/docs/infrastructure/hosts,/docs/alerting/alert-rules,/docs/alerting/uptime-monitoring,/docs/alerting/incidents,/docs/explore/logs,/docs/reference/authentication,/docs/reference/sql. Guides:/guides/uptime-monitoring,/guides/windows-server-monitoring(#1581).Verification
otelcol-contrib validateonotel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib:0.163.1, and both ran for several minutes with the exporter swapped for the ClickHouse exporter: host metrics, tailed log lines,httpcheck.*against a live URL, andsshcheck.status= 1 against an OpenSSH container (withssh-keyscanoutput asknown_hosts; a single-keyknown_hostsfails withkey mismatch, which the guide mentions).host_metrics,file_log,resource_detection,otlp_http,http_check,ssh_check) come fromcomponents; the old names still load and log a deprecation warning each.otelcol-contribuser, unit and env file; the Collector ran as that user via the env file and readroot:adm 0640logs afterusermod -aG adm.prepareRawSql(alert mode) and run on ClickHouse 26.9 over real host metrics: values andgroupper host come back, an empty window returns no rows. Thegroupalias parses on ClickHouse 25.3 too. The raw-SQL no-data path is covered by theAlertsServiceraw tests (ran green).apps/landingtests pass.Highlighter:
guide-highlight.tsgainsshellandsql; YAML keys may contain/, and numbers inside words are no longer colored.Sources: OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib READMEs for the host metrics, file log, HTTP check, SSH check and resource detection components; opentelemetry-collector-releases v0.163.1.
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