when it rains it pours - whats new in monitoring and metrics
Posted by Ian Holsman
so on the RRD mailing list there is a discussion on how to write a RRD server/accelerator to help speed up RRD. which is a great tool, but when you abuse it and try to capture hundreds of thousands of metrics it kinda uses a bit too much disk I/O. (read swamps the system)
So imagine my surprise when I noticed that orbitz has recently open sourced their monitoring framework
- ERMA: the monitoring API
- Graphite: a graphing component on top of it
- Whisper: a fixed size db that stores the info
and imagine my surprise when I found out it was written in Django, my favorite framework.
and now I find out Theo Schlossnagle has just released reconnoiter (reconnoiter project home)
now.. to find a couple of hours in the day to actually get into them.