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

[Peter Norton < >]

Ah, so the community isn't there yet, it's a momentum issue with not
having enough packaged collectors?

Thanks,

-Peter

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Gilles Devaux 
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> We looked at opentsdb and the problem is that we can't find any
> tcollector besides the one here: http://opentsdb.net/tcollector.html
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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).
>>>
>>> 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
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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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