.. _zeromq: ZeroMQ ====== You can export statistics to a ``ZeroMQ`` server. The connection should be defined in the Glances configuration file as following: .. code-block:: ini [zeromq] host=127.0.0.1 port=5678 prefix=G Glances `envelopes`_ the stats before publishing it. The message is composed of three frames: 1. the prefix configured in the [zeromq] section (as STRING) 2. the Glances plugin name (as STRING) 3. the Glances plugin stats (as JSON) Run Glances with: .. code-block:: console $ glances --export zeromq Following is a simple Python client to subscribe to the Glances stats: .. code-block:: python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # # ZeroMQ subscriber for Glances # import json import zmq context = zmq.Context() subscriber = context.socket(zmq.SUB) subscriber.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, 'G') subscriber.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:5678") while True: _, plugin, data_raw = subscriber.recv_multipart() data = json.loads(data_raw) print('{} => {}'.format(plugin, data)) subscriber.close() context.term() .. _envelopes: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Pub-Sub-Message-Envelopes