[chef] Re: Experience with monitoring cookbooks?

[Gilles Devaux < >]

I'd suggest to try them.

The munin cookbook works great but I had terrible issues with munin on
CentOS Rackspace (one core blocked at 100%, need to reboot).

I found Zenoss is extremely confusing and difficult to navigate.

We're in the process of setting up ganglia/graphite with Chef on our
system soon.

Anyway try them and pick what you think is right for you.

--Gilles

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Brad Knowles 
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> Ohai, Masterchefs!
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> We're in the process of standing up a Chef installation, using it to 
> provision and manage our servers and a variety of packages, and I've gotten 
> down to the point where I'm now working on the monitoring component.  I 
> know there are lots of monitoring cookbooks on the opscode site, and I'm 
> wondering if you folks can share with me your experience in using the 
> various cookbooks in this area and what you like or don't like about 
> whatever packages you've tried.
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> Our particular environment is CentOS 5.6 on Rackspace cloud servers at the 
> moment, but I'd love to hear experiences regardless of OS and type of 
> installation.
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> I did notice that Zenoss recently came out with a new zenpack so that they 
> can monitor your OpenStack systems, including things like how many flavors 
> you have available and how many of each type are in use, how many images 
> are available and how many are in use, what the various server states are, 
> etc....  This is in addition to what they can monitor at the individual 
> server level, if you're also including that as well.
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> Has anyone played with this new zenpack and can give me some feedback about 
> how it has impacted your site?
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> Thanks!
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> Brad Knowles 
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