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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>One of the things I like about Nagios plug-ins is that they are relatively simple to understand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Redhat’s RDO is already using some basic Nagios plugins but I think this would make sense as a stackforge project (as the puppet configuration recipes are now available). Other monitoring systems can often use Nagios plugins (or the logic can be easily adapted).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Having a ‘best of breed’ plug in set would greatly help deployments. Ultimately, identifying cases such as RabbitMQ queues with lots of messages or fatal error messages in the logs would be very useful to build up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Tim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Joe Topjian [mailto:joe.topjian@cybera.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> 26 April 2013 20:47<br><b>To:</b> Tim Bell<br><b>Cc:</b> Jay Pipes; openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-operators] Monitoring Openstack<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>In addition to that, one of the great many items on my todo list is to write alerts for "can an instance launch without error?" or "can a snapshot be created"?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Tim Bell <<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch" target="_blank">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Is there a repository for nagios probes for OpenStack ?<br><br>I'm thinking of more than just 'is this process running' but also 'is this REST API service responding correctly'<br><br>Tim<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:<a href="mailto:jaypipes@gmail.com">jaypipes@gmail.com</a>]<br>> Sent: 26 April 2013 19:41<br>> To: <a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Monitoring Openstack<br>><br>> Nagios for monitoring. Graphite/Diamond, Logstash, Kibana for graphing and log analysis.<br>><br>> -jay<br>><br>> On 04/26/2013 03:29 AM, Sylvain Bauza wrote:<br>> > Nagios/Centreon with eventhandlers for automating basic troubleshooting.<br>> > Centreon is pretty cool for graphing RRD databases populated thru NDO<br>> > driver.<br>> ><br>> > -Sylvain<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Le 25/04/2013 18:38, Stefano Zilli a écrit :<br>> >> Hi list,<br>> >><br>> >> we are planning to deploy a monitoring system to check Openstack services availability so I would like to do a quick survey on<br>what you<br>> currently use. I found several pages regarding this topic but they all end up in a war of religion between Nagios/Icinga, Zabbix<br>and other<br>> systems users.<br>> >><br>> >> It would be nice to see what are in your opinion the strong and weak points of these products based on your daily experience<br>with<br>> them.<br>> >><br>> >> Thanks,<br>> >> Stefano.<br>> >><br>> >><br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>> >> OpenStack-operators mailing list<br>> >> <a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> >> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operato" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operato</a><br>> >> rs<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > OpenStack-operators mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> > <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operator" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operator</a><br>> > s<br>> ><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OpenStack-operators mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenStack-operators mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>Joe Topjian<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Systems Administrator<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cybera Inc.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cybera.ca" target="_blank">www.cybera.ca</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'>Cybera is a not-for-profit organization that works to spur and support innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the use of cyberinfrastructure.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>