Health status indicators

Once your collectors are registered, you need to know if they’re working properly. That’s what health monitoring is for.

Fleet Management continuously checks your collectors and reports their status. But what does “healthy” actually mean? It’s not just “is the process running.” Fleet Management looks at several factors to give you a complete picture.

First, is the collector reachable? Can Fleet Management communicate with it? Is the collector making API calls?

Second, are any alerts firing? This is important: Fleet Management doesn’t create alerts automatically. It displays alerts that you’ve created in Grafana Alerting. This is intentional—alerting thresholds are different for every team. You define what matters, and Fleet Management surfaces those alerts in context.

And finally: has the collector loaded its remote configuration successfully or are there errors preventing it from doing so?

Based on these checks, each collector gets a status. Green means everything is fine. Yellow means something needs attention soon. Red means investigate immediately. This traffic light system lets you scan your entire fleet at a glance and know exactly which collectors need your attention.