server

Server

This project serves as an API server that proxies profiling data requests from an agent and inserts them (via a Driver) to a given database backend.

Installation

To get started, be sure you have Go 1.7 or higher installed and a local version of ElasticSearch or MongoDB running.

Step 1: Get source

We first need to go get the source for the project:

go get github.com/auto-profile/server

Step 2: Build

We can now run a build:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/auto-profile/server && go build

Step 3: Create configuration file

In order for the server to connect to one of the backend databases with the drivers we have available, we must specify a configuration file. A sample MongoDB config.json file might look something like:

{
    "driver": "mongo",
    "hostname": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": "27017"
}

Step 4: Run the server

We can now run our local server and point it to the configuration file:

./server -configPath ./config.json

And with that, your server is now able to receive requests from an agent at http://127.0.0.1:8080!

Drivers

Because of the variable nature of profiling data, NoSQL backends seem to fit nicely. We currently have supported ElasticSearch and MongoDB drivers.