The main parts of Alumet: core, plugins, agents

One of the key features of the Alumet framework is its extensibility. Thanks to a clear separation between the “core” and the “plugins”, Alumet allows to build measure-made measurement tools for a wide range of situations.

This page offers a simple, high-level view of the main concepts. For a more detailed explanation, read the Alumet Architecture chapter of the Alumet Developer Book.

Alumet core

The core of Alumet is a Rust library that implements:

• a generic and “universal” measurement model
• a concurrent measurement pipeline based on asynchronous tasks
• a plugin system to populate the pipeline with various elements
• a resilient way to handle errors
• and various utilities

Alumet plugins

On top of this library, we build plugins, which use the core to provide environment-specific features such as:

• gathering measurements from the operating system
• reading data from hardware probes
• applying a statistical model on the data
• filtering the data
• writing the measurements to a file or database
• …

Alumet agent(s)

But Alumet core and Alumet plugins are not executable! You cannot run them to obtain your measurements. To get an operational tool, we combine them in an agent: a runnable application.

We provide a “standard” agent that you can download and use right away. See Installing Alumet. You can also build your own customized agent, it only takes a few lines of codes. Refer to the Developer Book.