CONKW - The default grabbers



This page lists all the grabbers available Those default UIs don't try to be nice or even useful. What they try to achieve is show you every metrics available for every grabber in the system.
OSHI Grabber This is the universal system grabber. Not necessarily extremely optimized, it can get data from most systems. From a top-like UI to the brand of your RAM modules. Beware on particularly old and slow systems, this grabber (if all extractors are enabled) can drain your system. Documentation. Proc Grabber Linux only! This grabber gather its data from the /proc and /sys filesystems. It is fast and reasonably optimized. Documentation. Sys Grabber The Sys grabber is a universal system grabber, just using standard Java stuff. It provides basic CPU, load, memory and filesystems metrics. Documentation. LmSensor Grabber Linux only! This grabber gather its data from the lm-sensors utility program. Documentation. Hwmon Grabber Linux only! This grabber gather its data from the /sys/class/hwmon sysfs. Documentation. Latest Unread Emails Grabber Grabs your latest unread emails through IMAP. Hop on the documentation for Gmail and Outlook365 examples. Documentation. Tail Log File Grabber Scan a log file and exposes events to conkw. No documentation yet as this is a work in progress and there is a lot more to come. Http Endpoint Grabber Monitoring of http(s) endpoints. Both size and response time are extracted as well as any regexp you define in the config. Open Weather Map Grabber This grabber extracts the weather forecast from one call API of the openweathermap website. You need to register for a free account in order to use it. Documentation. Spotify Grabber This grabber extracts data on the currently playing song from the Spotify APIs. Of course, it only works if you use spotify as your main music player, so you need an account for it to work. Go see the documentation for the setup. Documentation. Yahoo Finance Grabber This grabber extracts data from a traded symbol. Add several grabbers to monitor more than one symbol. Documentation. Bing News Grabber This grabber extracts news headlines for a defined country. Documentation. Https Cert Grabber This grabber extracts the expiration date of https certs of provided domain names. This allows users to monitor the scripts and robots renewing their website certs. Or remind them to do so if it is a manual process. Documentation. File Grabber This grabber allows conkw to read data from any file that respects the properties format with some restrictions added. It allows you to grab data from other programs and scripts and use them easily in conkw. Look up the documentation for more information: Documentation. External Metrics Grabber This grabber allows anyone to inject data to this conkw instance. Just a simple http request is needed in order to inject data. Look up the documentation for more information: Documentation. External Instance Grabber This grabber imports data from other conkw instances on the network (ot locally for that matter). This is one of the ways one can build a dashboard monitoring several computers. Look up the documentation for more information: Documentation. Push To Emi Grabber This grabber grabs the local grabbers and sends their values to a distant conkw instance through its External Metrics Grabber. If you have lots of computers to monitor, this might be the best option. Look up the documentation for more information: Documentation.