Examples and Use Cases

Here are some examples of using AppScope to monitor specific applications, and to send the resulting data to specific destinations.

Example 1:

Run Firefox from the AppScope CLI, and view results on a terminal-based dashboard:

scope firefox
scope dash

Example 2

Send metrics from nginx to Datadog at ddoghost, using an environment variable and all other defaults:

SCOPE_METRIC_DEST=udp://ddoghost:5000 ldscope nginx

Example 3:

Send configured events from curl to the server myHost.example.com on port 9000, using the config file at /opt/scope/assets/scope.yml:

SCOPE_HOME=/opt/scope/assets ldscope curl https://cribl.io

Configuration file example:

event:
  enable: true
  transport:
    type: tcp
    host: myHost.example.com
    port: 9000

Example 4:

Send HTTP events from Slack to a Splunk server at myHost.example.com:

ldscope slack

Configuration file example, located at /etc/scope or ~/scope.yml:

event:
  enable: true
  transport:
    type: tcp
    host: myHost.example.com
    port: 8083
-----
    - type: http
      name: .*
      field: .*
      value: .*

Example 5:

Send DNS events from curl to the default host. This example uses the library in the current directory, independently of the CLI or loader:

SCOPE_EVENT_DNS=true LD_PRELOAD=./libscope.so curl https://cribl.io

Example 6:

Send default metrics from the Go static application hello to the Datadog server at ddog:

ldscope ./hello

Configuration file example:

metric:
  enable: true
  format:
    type : statsd
-----
transport:
    type: udp
    host: ddog
    port: 5000

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