Pilot Metrics

Collect and aggregate agent metrics from connections, peers, and custom events. Use this skill when: 1. You need to monitor agent health and performance 2. You need to aggregate metrics across a fleet of agents 3. You need to track connection counts, RTT, throughput 4. You need to export metrics to monitoring systems Do NOT use this skill when: - You need application-level metrics (publish custom events instead) - You need persistent storage (use pilot-event-log for raw data) - You need real-time alerting (use pilot-alert instead)

Collect and aggregate metrics from Pilot Protocol agents.

Commands

Get agent info

pilotctl --json info

Returns node ID, address, hostname, uptime, polo score.

Get peer list

pilotctl --json peers

Lists connected peers with connection time.

Get connections

pilotctl --json connections

Lists active connections with state, ports, bytes sent/received.

Subscribe to custom metrics

pilotctl --json subscribe <source-hostname> "metrics.*" [--timeout <seconds>]

Workflow Example

Fleet health dashboard:

#!/bin/bash
OUTPUT_FILE="/tmp/fleet-metrics-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).json"

echo '{"timestamp":"'$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)'","agents":[]}' > "$OUTPUT_FILE"

agents=$(pilotctl --json trust 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.data.trusted[].hostname')

for agent in $agents; do
  ping_result=$(pilotctl --json ping "$agent" 2>/dev/null)
  rtt_ms=$(echo "$ping_result" | jq -r '.data.results[0].rtt_ms // null')

  agent_data=$(jq -n --arg hostname "$agent" --arg rtt "$rtt_ms" \
    '{hostname: $hostname, rtt_ms: ($rtt | tonumber), status: "online"}')

  jq --argjson agent "$agent_data" '.agents += [$agent]' "$OUTPUT_FILE" > "${OUTPUT_FILE}.tmp"
  mv "${OUTPUT_FILE}.tmp" "$OUTPUT_FILE"
done

Dependencies

Requires pilot-protocol skill, jq, and a running daemon.