[chef] Re: CM/Chef API access for monitoring systems?

[Booker Bense < >]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Brad Knowles 
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> So, now I start to wonder what such a standardized API might look like, and 
> what kinds of information might be useful for a monitoring system to be 
> able to access regarding the nodes it should be monitoring?
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> Which leads me to the idea of posting such a question on this list, to see 
> if anyone else had any ideas or thoughts?
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Let the fruit fly... But isn't this more or less what SNMP is supposed
to do? (i.e. Standard Network Monitoring Protocol...)

I think you have the right concept, though. One of the main reason
"monitoring sucks" is that they are all vertically integrated. There
is no way to "mix and match"
pieces easily. There are no standard protocols for moving from one
level to the next.

- Booker C. Bense