Hi Matt, I recently implemented a first working prototype that could interest you. It's an AWS module for Icinga Web 2, acting as an Import Source for Icinga Director. Works pretty fine so far, you can find it here:
https://github.com/Thomas-Gelf/icingaweb2-module-aws The Usage section of the documentation shows some related screenshots: https://github.com/Thomas-Gelf/icingaweb2-module-aws/blob/master/doc/02-Usage.md Theory of operation: * you do not configure single instances, as you do not care about them * you need to define your AutoScaling groups * you need to know which groups should run with how many members That's roughly the "config" part of the monitoring, so that's where we started from. The module doesn't currently do any monitoring at all. Our customer started to write it's first related check plugins in Ruby, here a few examples of what they do: * In case an autoscaling group is ELB-based, find out whether ELB uses TCP or HTTP to monitor the instances. Use that protocol with the given parameters to run the related checks on our own with Icinga * Check that the runnig instances in our AutoScaling groups fit the desired amount of instances Services checks are created with custom apply rules based on the information imported from AWS. The plugins also use the AWS SDK to gather farther information in case they need so, that's currently outside of the scope of this module. Changes in AWS are synched automatically, recent Director master allows to schedule and run Jobs unattended for this. Please expect related documentation very soon. You can now basically import external data (AWS in this case), sync that to your Director object and automatically deploy the new configuration to Icinga in case it changed. Grace period (delay after last deploy) and similar options are configurable in the GUI. In this setup all this runs toghether with 2000 hosts synced from PuppetDB with another little module: https://github.com/Thomas-Gelf/icingaweb2-module-puppetdb Users and group definitions are synchronized from Active Directory, similar Sync Rules for Windows Servers are shown here: https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2-module-director/blob/master/doc/70-Import-and-Sync.md Icinga Director is still a pretty young project, but it slowly really starts making fun ;-) Back to the AWS module, next features we are currently experimenting with: * Import external CloudWatch monitors through the route53 part of the API. We want to benefit from them by using them as normal Icinga services, in business process definitions and for notifications and escalations * We'd also like to ship their performance data through Icinga to have them in our own graphers aggregated over longer time periods. Some of the (custom) plugins are already doing so, in the long run the module should give more related assistance, like figuring out available counters or similar I'm also evaluating the idea of "replicating" currently running AWS instances and their state to a small local DB. That would allow me to better track changes, create custom AWS-specific visualizations in the web frontend and to run more crazy checks even faster. In case you have any related ideas or suggestions how this could be improved please let me know. Contributions are welcome of course. Over here in good old Europe we only trust in bare metal, so we are lacking practical cloud experience ;-) Cheers, Thomas Am 15.06.2016 um 13:16 schrieb Matt Shields: > I have Icinga setup to monitor our production instances in AWS, but we > also have dev/qa resources that get shut off every night. I haven't > been monitoring them because as soon as they power off I get flooded > with alerts. > > Is there a way to monitor servers only when they are powered on? > > Thanks > Matt -- Thomas Gelf Principal Consultant NETWAYS GmbH | Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 | D-90429 Nuernberg Tel: +49 911 92885-0 | Fax: +49 911 92885-77 CEO: Julian Hein, Bernd Erk | AG Nuernberg HRB18461 http://www.netways.de | thomas.g...@netways.de ** OSBConf 2016 - September - osbconf.org ** ** OSMC 2016 - November - netways.de/osmc ** _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.icinga.org https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users
