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Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by elasticdog » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 6:07 PM UTC

AngryParsley wrote: post #7

brandon wrote: post #5

Super impressed. In 20 minutes I was able to hook up my personal Linode with a level of monitoring that probably would have taken a few hours to pull off manually. I don't think I would have considered using the paid service before, but this free account offers a compelling experience. I bet it'll pay off in conversions.

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

Any way to build the agent from source? I run Arch Linux on my Linode and would love to try out the added functionality.

Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by cloudkick » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 8:09 PM UTC

yannk wrote: post #19

cloudkick wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It is possible, but you'll need to add the "name" option to the agent config in /etc/cloudkick.conf.

Here's the documentation: https://support.cloudkick.com/Agent/Cloudkick.conf

Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

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Post by AngryParsley » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 10:41 PM UTC

elasticdog wrote: post #31

AngryParsley wrote: post #7

Earlier 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

Any way to build the agent from source? I run Arch Linux on my Linode and would love to try out the added functionality.

The plan is to open source the agent in the near future.