ZeroMQ

You can export statistics to a ZeroMQ server.

The connection should be defined in the Glances configuration file as following:

[zeromq]
host=127.0.0.1
port=5678
prefix=G

Glances envelopes the stats before publishing it. The message is composed of three frames:

the prefix configured in the [zeromq] section (as STRING)
the Glances plugin name (as STRING)
the Glances plugin stats (as JSON)

Run Glances with:

$ glances --export zeromq

Following is a simple Python client to subscribe to the Glances stats:

# -*- 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()