# System Uptime Plugin: proc.plugin Module: /proc/uptime ## Overview The amount of time the system has been up (running). Uptime is a critical aspect of overall system performance: - **Availability**: Uptime monitoring can show whether a server is consistently available or experiences frequent downtimes. - **Performance Monitoring**: While server uptime alone doesn't provide detailed performance data, analyzing the duration and frequency of downtimes can help identify patterns or trends. - **Proactive problem detection**: If server uptime monitoring reveals unexpected downtimes or a decreasing uptime trend, it can serve as an early warning sign of potential problems. - **Root cause analysis**: When investigating server downtime, the uptime metric alone may not provide enough information to pinpoint the exact cause. - **Load balancing**: Uptime data can indirectly indicate load balancing issues if certain servers have significantly lower uptimes than others. - **Optimize maintenance efforts**: Servers with consistently low uptimes or frequent downtimes may require more attention. - **Compliance requirements**: Server uptime data can be used to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements or SLAs that mandate a minimum level of server availability. This collector is only supported on the following platforms: - linux This collector only supports collecting metrics from a single instance of this integration. ### Default Behavior #### Auto-Detection This integration doesn't support auto-detection. #### Limits The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection. #### Performance Impact The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system. ## Metrics Metrics grouped by *scope*. The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels. ### Per System Uptime instance This scope has no labels. Metrics: | Metric | Dimensions | Unit | |:------|:----------|:----| | system.uptime | uptime | seconds | ## Alerts There are no alerts configured by default for this integration. ## Setup ### Prerequisites No action required. ### Configuration #### File There is no configuration file. #### Options There are no configuration options. #### Examples There are no configuration examples.