Wednesday 21 May 2014

Icinga 2 Beta being released next week

Icinga has announced a feature-freeze on the Icinga 2 Beta, with a release date for it scheduled for next Tuesday: see more details here for information on how to try it out.

Wednesday 14 May 2014

Status Board and Glasgow

Last year about this time, Panic released Status Board for the iPad. At the time I was really impressed with it, but we weren’t really set up to make use of it. In the interim, we’ve refreshed our monitoring and in particular are now using Graphite. Over the past couple of days I’ve been working with a couple of types of status update:

  • Naemon/nagios statuses
  • Graphite graphing

For the Naemon status updates, I’m using a python script using livestatus to grab the status of key probes. Some of these are site level statuses (in the screen below ATLAS CREAM and ATLAS SRMv2 are taken from the LCG SAM probe discussed a few weeks ago) and some are taken from looking at the cluster as a whole. In those cases (see for example LOADAVG) this alerts if at least one probe goes critical - I can then go and investigate further. At the moment, I’ve also set it so that if an alarm is acknowledged, this board switches back to OK for that probe - for the moment I’m more concerned with things I have to worry about that something that I understand, even though it might not be fully resolved. 

The graphs take the raw json data from graphite and, for the moment, do the simple thing of using the CSV formatting that Status Board uses by default. The next step is to tidy this up by using the custom formatting available - but even as it stands I think it works pretty well. 

There’s space left at one side for a to do list or something else - a project list, for example - once I work out the most useful way to work with that.

Statusboard small

New version of Grafana

After Monitorama, a new version of Grafana is now available, version 1.5.4. Check here for details and to download.

Monitorama videos

I meant to watch the live stream from Monitorama a couple of weeks ago, but the time difference made that a bit more difficult. Fortunately, however, the individual videos are now becoming available. Check out the Monitorama vimeo channel for more details: look for the "Monitorama PDX 2014” tag. 

Wednesday 7 May 2014

Icinga turns 5

Icinga, the very popular fork from Nagios started in 2009, turned 5 yesterday. You can read more about it here - you can also find links from there to progress on Icinga 2 and Icinga Web 2.

Friday 25 April 2014

Monitorama

In a few days time the next Monitorama monitoring conference will take place in Portland - it’s running from May 5th-7th. It looks like there’s going to be a great set of talks and workshops - they’re planning to have these streamed at the time and available afterwards. 

Monitoring Plugins

Having a quick check on the status of the monitoring-plugins and nagios-plugins packages, it looks like developments are continuing on both - monitoring-plugins is currently in review to be added to EPEL.