Back in October we launched kprobe, our improved host agent software that can be deployed anywhere (in your data center or in the cloud) to gather all kinds of useful data from real traffic on your hosts. We’ve been steadily enhancing kprobe ever since; this month we have a new release that includes a couple new CLI parameters:

• –status-port gives you the ability to check the status of the agent by defining the port to listen on.
• –status-host enables access beyond the localhost IP address (127.0.0.1).

Once the new parameters are configured, you can point your browser to http://host:port/v1/status to get a JSON output of the status.

{  
 “flows-in”: {  
   “count”: 953,  
   “1m.rate”: 4.297123404852097,  
   “5m.rate”: 2.286167148965094  
 },  
 “flows-out”: {  
   “count”: 953,  
   “1m.rate”: 4.297123404852097,  
   “5m.rate”: 2.286167148965094  
 }  
}

For more information on installing and configuring kprobe, check the Knowledge Base (KB) article on Host Configuration.