Questions about python monitor about signalfx-agent HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @rklabs,

1. The pip binary isn't there but the pip module is there. You can run PYTHONHOME=/ python -m pip in the Docker image OR PYTHONHOME=/usr/lib/signalfx-agent python -m pip if running it straight from the deb/rpm package installation. The main limitation of doing pip installs is that any installs that require C-extension compilation probably won't work, but that is mitigated by the prevalence of wheels.
   If you have dependencies that require extension compilation or you want to use a specific version of Python, you can install Python separately on your host and use the pythonBinary config option to the python-monitor (if you are installing the agent on a host and not running the container image). There is no such config for the collectd/python monitor because Python is linked directly in the collectd binary but you should really consider using the python-monitor monitor to extend the agent anyway since it is much more natural to our datapoint format.

2. We can definitely publish that as a package to Pypi if it makes things easier for you. I'm assuming the main reason you want it there is for development/IDE support? Or is it something else?

Let me know any other feedback/issues on the Python stuff -- this is still pretty new so it has a lot of room for maturation.

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Thanks for the quick reply!

1. Thanks for the tip! I was looking for pip executable in bin directory of signalfx-agent installation. But this works as well and currently, we don't really need C-extension for python.

2. Thanks for quickly creating the pr to install signalfx modules required for python monitor. We are currently migrating a bunch of custom metric collection scripts and we wanted to create a virtual environment with dependencies including from signalfx and use the python interpreter installed in a virtual environment rather than use the one packaged along with signalfx-agent. We want to maintain a clear boundary for the custom scripts and not mess with the python dist provided by signalfx-agent.

Yeah! sure thing, we have just started using signalfx and it's been a fun ride and if there is anything I will reach out to you.

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Ok, I released it on Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/sfxpython/. Let me know if you have any more issues/questions.

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🎊 Thank you!

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