Setup

Which config file to use

Butler SOS can use multiple config files. Here you learn to control which one is used by Butler SOS.

Config file verification

How to verify that the Butler SOS config file is valid.

Configuring Butler SOS logging

Heartbeats provide a way to monitor that Butler SOS is running and working as intended.
Butler SOS can send periodic heartbeat messages to a monitoring tool, which can then alert if Butler SOS hasn’t checked in as expected.

Configuring Butler SOS heartbeats

Heartbeats provide a way to monitor that Butler SOS is running and working as intended.
Butler SOS can send periodic heartbeat messages to a monitoring tool, which can then alert if Butler SOS hasn’t checked in as expected.

Docker healthcheck

Docker has a concept of “health checks”, which is a way for Docker containers to tell the Docker runtime engine that the container is alive and well. Butler SOS can be configured to send such health check messages to Docker.

Configuring Butler SOS uptime monitor

Butler SOS can optionally log how long it’s been running and how much memory it uses.
Optionally the memory usage can also be stored to an InfluxDB database or sent to New Relic, for later viewing/alerting in for example a Grafana dashboard or within New Relic.