send

Use case

Report an arbitrary value produced by another script/process (e.g. a batch job’s row count, a custom metric) through cmt’s normal output pipeline, without writing a dedicated module for it.

Configuration

Reads one line from stdin (up to a 5s wait) and reports it as the value of a single CheckItem. Because that only makes sense for one deliberate invocation, this check refuses to run at all unless the run’s --check names it exactly - any other run (a --cron/daemon sweep, an unscoped ad hoc run) silently skips it.

Output

Example

checks:
  - module: send
    name: mysend
    conf:
      attribute: token1
      comment: "a comment - send_token1 will be created in metrology"
      unit: no_unit

echo "42" | cmt --check mysend --report