[chef] Re: Re: Experience with monitoring cookbooks?

[Peter Norton < >]

Anyone looked into using opentsdb or have a chef recipe for it?  I
like the approach of not using summarization.  Lots of cheap storage
scales better than clever solutions in a high growth situation (in my
experience anyway).

-Peter

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Gilles Devaux 
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> I'd suggest to try them.
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> The munin cookbook works great but I had terrible issues with munin on
> CentOS Rackspace (one core blocked at 100%, need to reboot).
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> I found Zenoss is extremely confusing and difficult to navigate.
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> We're in the process of setting up ganglia/graphite with Chef on our
> system soon.
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> Anyway try them and pick what you think is right for you.
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> --Gilles
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> 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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