Zabbix's template to monitor Memcached

Today's topic is about monitoring Memcached instance. There are several ways/tools to monitor Memcached such as Munin, Nagios and Zabbix. I used to work with several monitoring tools but the most effective & my favorite one is Zabbix. I will discuss my impression about Zabbix later.

How to monitor Memcached's instance by using Zabbix

1. Import Memcached's template from this link to your Zabbix server
2. Modify /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf and add the following UserParameter (on the Memcached server)
   UserParameter=memcached_stats[*],echo -e "stats\nquit" | nc 127.0.0.1 $1 | grep "STAT $2 " | awk '{print $$3}'
3. Restart Zabbix agentd service
4. Link Mecached template to Memcached server
5. Check the latest data (Application: memcached)

What are inside this template

• 38 Items (default type is Zabbix Agent Active)
• 1 trigger
• 4 graphs

Note

• This template tries to monitor Memcached instance that running on port 11211
• If your Memcached instance is running in different port, you could simply replace 11211 with your port number before importing this template
• If you run more than one Memcached instances, you could simply copy this and modify port number.