Can't get metrics-jstat.rb to work because of the elevated privileges required by jstat

[bradenwright]

metrics-jstat.rb works fine from my local command line metrics-jstat.rb -j :::app_name::: -H :::name::: of course on the command line I have to actually type the app name. But it doesn't seem to work when running from sensu. It simple exits 1 with no output, and I don't see any details in sensu logs.

I've even tried giving sensu user full sudo access.

[efontana]

Bump, same problem here. I can see it's executing in the sensu-client.log and sensu-server.log(s)
but there is no output. it's almost as if there is too much output?

[efontana]

I figured out why it isn't working, however I don't know yet how to get around it.
In my case, I'm trying to monitor the Jenkins process, which was started by user jenkins.

when you run jps -v as user sensu, it doesn't see the jenkins process, so nothing gets printed.
if I run it as root, it does, the question is what's the workaround?

[andyfoster05]

Bump. Having the same issue. Tried adding sensu user to sudors all over the place, add sensu to admin groups, tried calling a script to sudo command, tried adding sudo before the check in sensu. I still cant figure out a work around.

[eheydrick]

jstat has to run as the user owning the java process. e.g. sudo -u nobody -g sensu metrics-jstat.py -j <processname>