[Nix-dev] Monitoring by default

[Rok Garbas]

+1 for the initiative. i don't believe personally enabling monitoring
by default should be the right way to go (since we all use nixos in
different contexts), but having a commented instructions in generated
configurations.nix would be the way to go.

it would be nice if systemd monitoring stuff could be used as well:
https://github.com/garbas/dotfiles/blob/master/nixos/rok.nix#L236
above line makes systemd-cgtop showing numbers.



On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Alexei Robyn <shados at shados.net> wrote:
> Seems interesting. You mention alerts for "System software too old.", but
> the only vaguely-universal definition of "too old" I can think of would be
> "missing security updates", and that's both debatable and an area where
> NixOS is currently fairly lacking in infrastructure and tooling.
>
> Default collection of metrics beyond what is necessary to provide useful
> alerts is a bad idea. Alerts have essentially universal usefulness,
> statistics less so - they're unnecessary for most desktops and small
> servers. At least until you have issues, so of course it'd be nice if they
> were easy to switch on :p.
>
> - Alexei
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, at 12:40 AM, Svein Ove Aas wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> People who are not interested in reliability or monitoring can stop reading
> now.
>
> --
>
> I've written up a "design doc" (statement of intent?) for how we might do
> monitoring-by-default. Once I think there is a reasonable level of consensus
> about how we should do this, I'll go ahead and implement what's in the
> document, but I'd like to make sure we're all on the same page first;
> especially as I want this to be on by default.
>
> So I'd like your input. Can you take a look?
>
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> Svein Ove Aas
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