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+## Pony - monitoring agent for Xray/Wiregard
+
+Collects metrics on lowlevel and sends to Carbon 
+
+Works with [carbon-clickhouse](https://github.com/frkn-dev/graphite-clickhouse-tldr) stack
+
+```build
+cargo build --release
+```
+
+```test
+cargo test
+```
+
+
+Prerequisites - [cross](https://github.com/cross-rs/cross)
+
+```crosscompile
+cross build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 
+```