Simple Monitoring with statsd, shell and netcat

monitoring.sh

PREFIX=any.prefix.will.do
STATSD_HOSTNAME=your.server.name
STATSD_PORT=8125

while true; do
  echo "$PREFIX.systemload1:`cut -f1 -d " " /proc/loadavg`|g" | ./nc -u -q 0 $STATSD_HOSTNAME $STATSD_PORT

  cat /proc/stat | grep "cpu " | \
    while read -r cpu user nice system idle iowait irq softirq steal guest guestnice
    do
      echo -e \
"$PREFIX.cpu.user:$user|g
$PREFIX.cpu.nice:$nice|g
$PREFIX.cpu.system:$system|g
$PREFIX.cpu.idle:$idle|g
$PREFIX.cpu.iowait:$iowait|g
$PREFIX.cpu.irq:$irq|g
$PREFIX.cpu.softirq:$softirq|g
$PREFIX.cpu.steal:$steal|g
$PREFIX.cpu.guest:$guest|g
$PREFIX.cpu.guestnice:$guestnice|g" \
      | ./nc -u -q 0 $STATSD_HOSTNAME $STATSD_PORT
    done

  sleep 5
done