Set up a Monitoring System

[ehelms]

Our infrastructure nodes need monitoring. We don't want jobs failing because they Jenkins nodes are running out of disk space. Also notes that are down need to be checked.

[ehelms]

Since I do not recall the context of this I am closing.

[ekohl]

IMHO this is still needed so I've provided context.

[ehelms]

IMHO this is still needed so I've provided context.

Did you forget to hit send on the comment with the context?

[ekohl]

I modified the original message (from no message to some).

[ekohl]

Discussed during the infra sig: https://community.theforeman.org/t/infrastructure-sig-meeting-notes-2022-01-14/26860#set-up-a-monitoring-systemhttpsgithubcomtheforemanforeman-infraissues471-17

There was a discussion about which system to use. Zabbix was mentioned by @Odilhao while @ekohl mentioned Icinga. The former has the benefit that Odilon has experience with it while the latter has a foreman_monitoring plugin (though a Zabbix backend could be written for smart_proxy_monitoring. It would also run on Netways infrastructure and Netways maintains Icinga.

Agreed on the requirements:

• It needs to implement disk checks since this is what we mostly run into. While every monitoring solution implements this, it should be seen as the focus point to start with.
• Puppetized since Foreman’s infrastructure is maintained with Puppet and we don’t want to manually deploy anything.

[ekohl]

https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-packaging/issues/283 is blocking us from using Icinga 2.