Post #1495856
2026-03-13 08:54 UTC
…simple Varlink interface on it. A new tool "systemd-report" then iterates through those sockets, asks them all in parallel for their current metrics, compiles a single "report document" from it, and outputs it.
In v260 there are two services implementing this new interface like this: PID1 and systemd-networkd. In the coming releases we hope to grow this list, and make more and more services generically observable this way.
The metrics exposed are somewhat close to what Prometheus expects, …
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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 08:57
… to make bridging to the prometheus world easy, however it's still distinct, because we needed both something more low-level and extensible. Note that the new systemd-report tool is not supposed to be the only way to get the data: because the API is generic, and accessible to any service I'd expect that current agents could start using this directly too if they like to extract metrics data from systemd components, without involvement of systemd-report.