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

[Michael Schueler < >]

We use the nagios cookbook and it works fairly well, have had to make
a bunch of adjustments to make it work well in our environment though.
 I recommend the nagios quickstart guide.

I've tried the ganglia cookbook but haven't had much success getting
everything to "just work".

The munin cookbook works out of the box, but munin doesn't seem to
work very well with anything more than a small infrastructure.

-Mike

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:51 AM, william pink 
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> I use the Nagios cookbook and Ganglia cookbook and I'm very impressed with
> both (I have hacked both quite a bit though)
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:40 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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>> >  wrote:
>> >> 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
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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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