Hmm. I just tried to sign up and get a 403: "CSRF verification failed. Request aborted."
Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
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Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#12Hmm. I just tried to sign up and get a 403: "CSRF verification failed. Request aborted."
Hi, I took a quick look, and it looks like you were using Opera -- We are spining up people to double check in opera right now, but I'd suggest re-trying in Firefox or Chrome
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#13As others have pointed out, I have timeout errors with linode.
One thing of concern for me is that giving away my linode API key is not something I really would like to do. I don't use this key for anything at the moment, but my understanding is that it gives to the holder the right to delete my linode. not WANT. Arguably it's more a linode problem that it is cloudkick's
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#14Hmm. I just tried to sign up and get a 403: "CSRF verification failed. Request aborted."
Hi, I took a quick look, and it looks like you were using Opera -- We are spining up people to double check in opera right now, but I'd suggest re-trying in Firefox or Chrome
Yep, I'm one of those.
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like you set up the Cloudkick agent. If you really want to take advantage of the agent, try out some custom plugins ( https://support.cloudkick.com/Agent/Custom_Plugins ). We've cleaned up a few that we use internally and made them available at http://github.com/cloudkick/agent-plugins
Indeed. I'm a Debian user, so it only took a minute to get the agent running which I appreciated a lot . It seems like the only piece missing is graphing and alerting on bandwidth usage with the agent. Linode provides a nice set of hypervisor-level views of IO/CPU/Bandwidth but they're really only useful historically and from a billing perspective. On second thought, this sounds like an awesome way to get familiar wi…
There's a bandwidth check type. Click on the monitor tab, then click on new monitor, then select Bandwidth in the check type drop-down.
We don't support alerting on bandwidth usage yet, but that check will alert if the interface is down.
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, I took a quick look, and it looks like you were using Opera -- We are spining up people to double check in opera right now, but I'd suggest re-trying in Firefox or Chrome
Yep, I'm one of those.
We confirmed it works in Opera 10 -- I got scary faces made at from the webdevs me when I suggested supporting Opera 9!
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, I'm one of those.
We confirmed it works in Opera 10 -- I got scary faces made at from the webdevs me when I suggested supporting Opera 9!
Strange. I'm on 10.50 and it's still 403.
Updated to Opera 10.60: 403.
Edit: nevermind, I got it to work. Must have had referrers turned off. I rarely see that cause a failure, so it wasn't on my normal checklist.
Sorry for the noise!
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#18As others have pointed out, I have timeout errors with linode. One thing of concern for me is that giving away my linode API key is not something I really would like to do. I don't use this key for anything at the moment, but my understanding is that it gives to the holder the right to delete my linode. not WANT. Arguably it's more a linode problem that it is cloudkick's
Your API credentials are the keys to the kingdom, so you're rightly cautious about giving them out.
However, we can proudly say that with nearly one million servers having passed through Cloudkick without being inadvertently rebooted, terminated, or otherwise... statistically, it's probably more likely that you'll accidentally terminate it yourself manually than that something untoward will happen to it if you're managing it with us. Our entire business is based on making server management better, easier, and safer for you and we do everything we can to make our service infallible.
In fact, some of the initial inspiration for our dashboard was that existing tools made it too easy to accidentally kill the wrong machines. Some providers give nodes names that aren't exactly user-friendly, and without some basic sorting and labeling tools, eventually almost anyone would make a mistake. So, we added coloring, sorting, and renaming to mitigate that kind of user error.
Also, on the subject of security, we just added the ability to require multi-factor authentication to log in to your Cloudkick account. You can choose to require a YubiKey, one-time SMS code, or one-time email code to access your dashboard. We did a brief write-up on our blog if you're interested in learning more: cloudkick.com/blog
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#19As others have pointed out, I have timeout errors with linode. One thing of concern for me is that giving away my linode API key is not something I really would like to do. I don't use this key for anything at the moment, but my understanding is that it gives to the holder the right to delete my linode. not WANT. Arguably it's more a linode problem that it is cloudkick's
Your API credentials are the keys to the kingdom, so you're rightly cautious about giving them out. However, we can proudly say that with nearly one million servers having passed through Cloudkick without being inadvertently rebooted, terminated, or otherwise... statistically, it's probably more likely that you'll accidentally terminate it yourself manually than that something untoward will happen to it if you're man…
Thanks for the answer.
I forgot to test one thing before terminating my trial (nice job by the way, the complexity is just a bit overwhelming initially): Is it possible to remove the API key once the initial setup is done as long as the agents are running on the monitored machines?
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#20It's not available for chunkhost.com. I'd love to try it out on chunkhost