[TriLUG] Open source software to monitor hundreds of VMs

[Kristopher Kane via TriLUG]

I see a mix of interpretations of 'monitoring' in this chain.

Where I work:
Nagios for monitoring and alerting.
'ELK' stack for metrics - Mostly logstash reading Linux OS metrics and
parsing ingesting log files for search across all hosts.  Some use Grafana
on top of Elasticsearch for different graphs of the metrics.

Sometimes surpassing metric thresholds translates into alerts - this is
still done in Nagios.

All of this is provisioned with Chef. The source of truth is defined in
Chef server when a node enters the cluster via a Chef client/server on
boarding process. I don't conduct any of this work but the people who do,
do so successfully.

Kris

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Nikolas Everett via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > ELK - Elastic Search Logstash Kibana as a project seems to be making it
> > difficult to download/install unless you want to clone github. I'm
> > wondering if their setting up for a more closed or thinly veiled open
> > source model.
> >
>
> Going off topic but whatever:
>
> If they are no one has told me and I'm an Elastic employee and a full time
> contributor to Elasticsearch. Each individual project publishes deb and rpm
> packages. If I had to guess it is just difficult to install because no one
> has made it easy yet. Each project feels like and individual project
> because they are. I've never used logstash and only rarely used kibana. I
> installed a beat once, I think.
>
> From Elastic's standpoint hard to install is bad because it really wants
> you to enjoy using all the bits of the Elastic stack and decide to pay for
> a subscription because the subscription comes with some shiny feature. I'm
> genuinely torn about which features should be open source vs closed source
> but I think for the most part Elastic has made the right calls. Still, it
> is hard because I want as much as possible to be open source but I'd like
> to continue to be payed to work on open source software and if no one pays
> Elastic for stuff I'd be out of a job.
>
>
> Nik
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