You asked, we listened. The new Sematext Monitoring Agent includes many features that will make your infrastructure and application monitoring a whole lot easier.
The recently opened-sourced Sematext Monitoring Agent is fully pluggable, making it possible for you to collect metrics from a number of additional sources. The new agent supports the latest Java versions and has updates for many integrations such as Apache Kafka, introduces support for ClickHouse monitoring, etc. In addition, we changed how the agent talks to Sematext. Instead of using a custom protocol, we’ve adopted the popular Influx Line Protocol for sending metrics and all their metadata via HTTPS. The old proprietary format will continue to work for a while to ensure backward compatibility with older agent versions.
You can find all details about the release in Open-sourcing Sematext Monitoring Agent.
If you are an existing Sematext Cloud user, we encourage you to log in and update your agent to start benefiting from the lower agent footprint and flexible configuration options.
The agent update is super simple: just use your package manager to update the spm-client package.