Last modified: June 8, 2022

Overview

360 Monitoring is a web service that monitors your servers’ performance, displays vital statistics, and can send alerts.

This software is an operating system-agnostic agent compatible with Python 2.7, 3.5, and 3.6. It’s been optimized to have a small CPU consumption and comes with an extendable set of useful plugins.

Installation

When you add a server to 360 Monitoring, the 360 Monitoring site will display basic installation instructions for that type of server. However, depending on your platform, you may need to perform the installation manually.

Plesk servers

To install 360 Monitoring on a Plesk server, perform the following steps:

1. Located under the Try 360 Monitoring for Free section, click the Connect button to connect your Plesk server to the 360 platform. The Confirm connecting your server to “Plesk 360” interface will appear.
   Note:

   For information on 360 account creation, read our Get Started with 360 documentation.
2. Click Confirm to complete the server connection and return to Plesk. The system will return you to the main Plesk interface.
3. Located under the Try 360 Monitoring for Free section, click the Activate button. The Confirm activating the 360 Monitoring interface will appear.
4. Click the Confirm.

After a few minutes, the system will complete the installation. You can find the 360 monitoring graphs in the main 360 interface.

Installing 360 Monitoring on a Plesk server via the CLI

You can connect your Plesk server to 360 Monitoring using the CLI. Platform 360 uses API tokens for authentication. For more information on API tokens, read our API Token documentation.

Reading an API token from a file

To connect your Plesk server to 360 Monitoring via the CLI by reading an API token from a file, use the following command:

plesk ext platform360 --connect-server -p360-key-file /path/to/file/with/secret
plesk ext platform360 --monitoring-setup -p360-key-file /path/to/file/with/secret
plesk ext monitoring --cloud --install-monitoring-agent

Entering an API token manually

To connect your Plesk server to 360 Monitoring via the CLI by entering the API token manually, use the following commands:

plesk ext platform360 --connect-server -p360-key-file -
plesk ext platform360 --monitoring-setup -p360-key-file -
plesk ext monitoring --cloud --install-monitoring-agent

These commands will prompt you to enter your API token string directly into the CLI.

Using the Plesk REST API

If you wish to use the Plesk REST API to install 360 Monitoring, you must set the P360_API_KEY environment variable. To set the P360_API_KEY environment variable, use the following commands:

export P360_API_KEY=<API_TOKEN_STRING>
plesk ext platform360 --connect-server
plesk ext platform360 --monitoring-setup
plesk ext monitoring --cloud --install-monitoring-agent

Use the following command to unset the P360_API_KEY environment variable for security purposes when you are done:

unset P360_API_KEY

Debian GNU/Linux

To install 360 Monitoring on Debian GNU/Linux, perform the following steps:

apt-get install python3-devel python3-setuptools python3-pip
pip3 install agent360
wget -O /etc/agent360.ini https://monitoring.platform360.io/agent360.ini

To obtain your USERTOKEN value, perform the following steps:

1. In the 360 Navigation Bar, click Servers.
2. Click Add Server. The Monitor a new server window will appear.
3. The USERTOKEN token appears at the bottom of the window.

Then, you will use this USERTOKEN value to generate a serverid with the following command:

hello360 USERTOKEN /etc/agent360-token.ini

Finally, run the following commands:

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chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/agent360.service
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable agent360
systemctl start agent360

Fedora / CentOS

To install 360 Monitoring on Fedora and CentOS version 6 or earlier (python 2.6, 2.7), run the following commands:

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yum install python-devel python-setuptools gcc
easy_install agent360 netifaces psutil

For Fedora and CentOS version 7 and later (python 3), run the following commands:

yum install python36-devel python36 gcc
pip3 install agent360

Python 2.4 or 2.5 environment

Because the source package is published on PyPI, provided that you’ve obtained setuptools, simply perform the following command:

easy_install agent360