[Nix-dev] What monitoring tools do you currently prefer?

[Mathijs Kwik]

Thanks for the tips.
I will look into datadog probably, although I was hoping to uncloud
myself a bit by moving more stuff to my own infrastructure ;)

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
> It is worth mentioning datadog (as aggregation server) builds upon very
> strong concepts of https://github.com/etsy/statsd/ (as client-side
> statistics collecting tool).
>
> For application developers it's nice because you can collection system and
> application data under same api.
>
> Jaka also added Graphite (OSS web tool for drawing graphs from statsd)
> support to NixOS, but it's far from datadog capabilities.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Matthijs,
>>
>> > Tools like sysstat/sar come to mind, but as these have been around for
>> > eons, there might be more modern alternatives that I don't know about
>> > yet.
>>
>> If you have a small amount of servers, you could try using DataDog
>> (http://www.datadoghq.com/), up to 5 machines are for free. It is very
>> easy to use, there is a NixOS module for it. I have used DataDog for
>> EC2 machines for which they have an integration available to allow
>> getting performance information that EC2 offers. Perhaps they have
>> something similar for your cloud provider as well.
>>
>> If you have more machines, it might be worth to switching to a system
>> like Zabbix. Zabbix should also be relatively easy to set up in NixOS,
>> there is an example in the nixos-org-configuration repository of the
>> NixOS organization on github.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob
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