[Openstack-docs] Improve Monitoring section in the Ops Guide

Nicholas Chase nchase at mirantis.com
Mon Aug 12 17:35:53 UTC 2013


I read the piece that Emilien published last week about it and if it's 
like that, where it explains what's being tested and the rationale 
behind it, I think it could be valuable.

----  Nick

On 8/12/2013 11:03 AM, Anne Gentle wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Emilien Macchi
> <emilien.macchi at enovance.com <mailto:emilien.macchi at enovance.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
>
>
>     I would like to contribute at the monitoring section of the Operations
>     Guide, in talking about a project I've worked on during the last days.
>
>     I wrote a blog post about that :
>     http://my1.fr/blog/yet-another-way-to-monitor-openstack/
>
>     What I would like to write, is a new section under
>     http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-ops/content/logging_monitoring.html#monitoring
>     in explaining that it exists some scripts that could be used by many
>     monitoring tools (Nagios, etc), the way to use them and what they do.
>
>
> I'm torn. I want more additions to the Operations Guide and it's true
> that logging and monitoring are not covered in depth. But just adding
> "yet another script" that may not work in the future feels like taking
> on technical debt we can't afford. Is that the case, that you'd add a
> script that works for you but might not work for other? Is it
> release-specific?
>
> Anyone else have thoughts on the addition of more monitoring info? I
> sense that admins have their own opinions and while you could give yours
> I don't know if it would be accepted at first?
>
> Thanks for asking - want to hear others opinions as well of course!
> Anne
>
>     If you have any though or idea about that, please let me know.
>
>
>     Enjoy the week-end,
>
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