<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://17/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Zabbix user here :)<div>The 1.8 version is rock stable and with little imagination you can monitor your cloud easily.</div><div>Takes time when you want to monitor more than running processes, let's say parsing logs, checking processes "status" and various outputs </div><div>regards</div><div>Razique</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Le 26 avr. 2013 à 20:52, Tim Bell <<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">One of the things I like about Nagios plug-ins is that they are relatively simple to understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">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></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">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></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Tim<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-left-color: blue; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt; "><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Joe Topjian [mailto:joe.topjian@<a href="http://cybera.ca">cybera.ca</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>26 April 2013 20:47<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tim Bell<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jay Pipes; <a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Openstack-operators] Monitoring Openstack<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">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></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Tim Bell <<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0cm; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><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" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">jaypipes@gmail.com</a>]<br>> Sent: 26 April 2013 19:41<br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">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>> >><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> >><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operato" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operato</a><br>> >> rs<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > OpenStack-operators mailing list<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operator" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operator</a><br>> > s<br>> ><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OpenStack-operators mailing list<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">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" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br><br clear="all"><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Joe Topjian<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Systems Administrator<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Cybera Inc.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="http://www.cybera.ca" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">www.cybera.ca</a><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">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></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OpenStack-operators mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>