Introduction

Monitoring within Flir is a varied subject and has different meanings to the different user personas that are using Flir.

Monitoring can take the form of

• Monitoring of the state of the various services that are run to implement the overall Flir functionality.

• Monitoring the resources that Flir needs to operate.

• Monitoring the flow of data within the various pipelines implemented by a Flir instance.

• Monitoring for configuration changes of the pipelines that operate on the data.

• Monitoring the quality of the data that is flowing in the Flir pipelines.

• And finally, the one that is the major purpose of Flir: monitoring the state of the machines and processes connected to the Flir instance.

Flir offers tools to perform all of these various forms of monitoring. The following sections will detail these tools and describe how to configure them and how to interrupt the results of these monitoring tools.