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

[Gilles Devaux < >]

We looked at opentsdb and the problem is that we can't find any
tcollector besides the one here: http://opentsdb.net/tcollector.html

So if you want to monitor haproxy or mongo / riak, etc... you'll have
to write them. You can find ganglia gmetric for pretty much
everything.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Peter Norton 
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> 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
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Gilles Devaux 
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>> 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.
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>> Anyway try them and pick what you think is right for you.
>>
>> --Gilles
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>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Brad Knowles 
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>>  wrote:
>>> Ohai, Masterchefs!
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Has anyone played with this new zenpack and can give me some feedback 
>>> about how it has impacted your site?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brad Knowles 
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>>> SAGE Level IV, Chef Level 0.0.1
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>>>
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