I was looking to deploy Nagios on our servers, but I am discouraged by
its architecture. I would like something minimalistic that can run
anywhere (including small routers).
System monitoring has a number of important components, but they could
all be simple and written in guile:
1. a (small) monitoring daemon (say for monitoring a web end point,
temperature or disk space)
These would be run by shepherd and submit events to a message queue
somewhere on the monitoring server (2)
2. queue handler
The queue handler sits on the monitoring server and drops messages
into a database
3. notification handler(s)
Reads the database and sends out alerts
4. curses and web-based monitors
These tools just fetch data from the database and handle aggregation
I envisage rather simple tooling.
I am raising this here to see if anyone has come up with similar or
partial solution(s). And to see who would be interested in such a
project.
How do we monitor the Guix servers right now?
Pj.
