Better monitoring of a running server

[DanielOaks]

Inspired by our cool friend project eris, it may make sense for us to integrate into other monitoring software. Lets server runners see trends over time, see the status of the box without running a bunch of IRC commands, and may let the runners actually perform maintenence actions without being connected? I've thought about some custom exposure for this, e.g. the old JSON API that we used to expose, but being able to piggyback off existing, stable monitoring software solutions would be cool.

eris uses Grafana, I wonder what's out there, fairly simple to integrate, relatively well-supported, low-dependency and has the features that we'd like.

[slingamn]

We might want to talk more generally about bringing back a web interface (in this case, to serve a stats endpoint). This is relevant to several other tickets:

1. We might want a viewer for persistent logs: #348
2. We might want admin dashboards for user accounts: #288, #414
3. We might want API functionality for IP bans

[bogdomania]

bringing back a web interface (in this case, to serve a stats endpoint).

Web content served via internal httpd, or relying on other httpds? (nginx, apache, etc). The idea is awesome.

[DanielOaks]

Internal httpd yeah. Oragono's internal httpd would only serve an API endpoint, very small and doesn't take up much space or processing :)

[bogdomania]

I started a demo of a user interface, nothing fancy, just some web pages. Once all the pages are working, I will tailor the content more closely to Oragono's needs. Feel free to drop any toughts.

[L.E.] I think a good web app and a tiny webserver, all in the same package, running locally, on admin's machine ( with packaging in place, for various OS ) would be far more effective than relying on third party, like Grafana.

[tacerus]

Hi @bogdomania, your screenshot looks pretty neat! What's the status on the project, is there possibly a pre-release for download somewhere?

[tacerus]

As for monitoring, there exists https://github.com/dgl/ircd_exporter, but it unfortunately relies on the STATS command and is designed for linked servers.