[Nix-dev] Monitoring by default

[Layus]

I like the idea too.

It seems to me that distributions really lack metrics collection and 
data analysis.
For example, it would be nice to have automatic gathering of the battery 
usage (charge/discharge/capacity) and an easy access to compiled 
historical data like the capacity loss over the years.

I know this is far less ambitious than what you describe, but it would 
be a great entry point for new users.
If they like it, they may want to gather wore statistics.

Anyway, I think it makes total sense to have such a feature in NixOS.

-- Layus.

On 20/04/16 11:49, Rok Garbas wrote:
> +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?
>>
>> --
>> Svein Ove Aas
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