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It would be awesome if sensu's admin interface, or its dashboard (whatever) could display the metrics data it gathers from checks
If you examine most other monitoring packages out there, you get a comprehensive listing of all the checks for a particular host, and you don't have do tie it all together yourself. Examples: newrelic, scout, zenoss, copperegg. If you click on a host in the list of hosts, you get all the graphs and alerts for that host.
Maybe I just don't get it?
I think I would find a reason to love sensu if it did this. But I must move on and evaluate something else.
I think the fact that sensu doesn’t care about keeping the metrics is what keeps it so simple. It would be awesome if when you clicked on a client it would show the the checks that that host is running.
Also I will add this comment here too…. I would love if the checks could have an option to NOT show up on the dashboard… I put this on the google community site but Ill explain it here too.. “ I would like a check that can trigger a handler but not show up on the dashbaord as a warning... for example... we have a script that tells us when a machine has updates available but I would like that to trigger a handler to create a ticket/issue in jira and not show it on the dashboard forever.. is that possible?”
I think this would allow us to utilize sensu even more but not have to uglify the dashboard with non critical checks…
Also… does anyone have a sentry handler??? I guess that is the direction we are looking to for the future for log and event aggregation.
Thanks! Josh On Mar 18, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Greg Swallow [email protected] wrote:
If you examine most other monitoring packages out there, you get a comprehensive listing of all the checks for a particular host, and you don't have do tie it all together yourself. Examples: newrelic, scout, zenoss, copperegg. If you click on a host in the list of hosts, you get all the graphs and alerts for that host.
Maybe I just don't get it?
I think I would find a reason to love sensu if it did this. But I must move on and evaluate something else.
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On Mar 18, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Greg Swallow [email protected] wrote:
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Yeah, I see that. We already have logstash installed and would probably be good candidates for loggly as a result. However, I'm taking the discussion off topic right off the bat because I can't read your original post closely enough :)
These metrics are already being collected (and sent to graphite through the graphite handler / mutators). It would be nice if some default metrics were shown as graphs for each client, in the sensu web interface.
I agree it would be nice to see the metrics coming from a host in the admin, however when a node executes metric data and its sent somewhere (librato, graphite, etc) its not tied to that node in anyway, we would have to write a completely new handler and then have sensu admin keep the metrics for itself. Writing a complete metric system is no easy task, maybe graphite could be back ended and then using gdash or something for the front end but... Your talking a lot of work and it would remove keeping the sensu side as simple as possible.
