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

[Oliver Charles]

At work we're happily using statsd and graphite, along with logster.
On 31 Aug 2013 09:35, "Mathijs Kwik" <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl> wrote:

> 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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