Sensu sounds interesting, and not too different from the way Puppet (factor, mcollective, puppetdb, etc.) work. Wouldn't it be ideal if there were an easy way to tie your configuration management system together with your service monitoring system? Are there any projects out there that even come close?
P.S. Yes, I know you can fake it with Nagios and scripting. I have, but it isn't very robust. On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Kristopher Zentner <kzent...@section6.net>wrote: > I'm amazed no one has mentioned Sensu on this thread. It certainly > deserves a mention. It's a young project, but having used Nagios for 5 > years, it's a breath of fresh air, especially with a dynamic cloud based > environment. How it works: > * Completely ruby based: (gem install sensu). There's a client and server. > * You have a master server which publishes checks that clients should run > to a queue (rabbitmq). Clients check in to the queue which sets of checks > (subscriptions) they should be executing. They also publish results into > the queue which the master picks up. > * Clients that publish results into the queue are automatically added, no > need to add them to the central config. Client deletes can happen via a > DELETE call to the API. > * Client acknowledgments or check acknowledgments happen via "stashes". > * Lots of plugins that work directly with Graphite. > > It's still a really young project, but it's much easier to manage than > Nagios. It also doesn't quite have the features Nagios has. Not much in the > way of automated reporting. > > -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--
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