Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
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Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
#2There are a few issues with the GIT repo right now that I'm helping Nick Craver work through. I see this project maturing over time to be quite awesome.
Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
#3Is it GUI based ?
If so, are there screenshots ?
Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
#4Is it GUI based ? If so, are there screenshots ?
Yep.
Here are the screenshots from out Velocity Presentation: http://imgur.com/a/dawwf
Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
#5Having a quick poke around and I notice that they are storing all exceptions in an SQL database. I've been looking at storing all the errors we get in our various applications in a central repository and was wondering what the general consensus was?
Currently I'm going a centralised logstash server and using a logstash shipper on each of my servers to push the exceptions, from a standard logfile to it. I was toying with the idea of pushing all my errors at source to an SQL database but figured if I was having database problems I'd be missing all the exceptions that I could be using to trigger the alerts that I'm having database problems!
Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
#6Easy to deploy as it's written in C# :)
Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
#7Having a quick poke around and I notice that they are storing all exceptions in an SQL database. I've been looking at storing all the errors we get in our various applications in a central repository and was wondering what the general consensus was? Currently I'm going a centralised logstash server and using a logstash shipper on each of my servers to push the exceptions, from a standard logfile to it. I was toying w…
There is no general consensus, but there's no rule that say you can only have one central watchdog. Collect errors one place, watch over you db somewhere else, watch over your watchdogs somewhere else still. This is basic sysadmin CYA.
Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
#8Easy to deploy as it's written in C# :)
Just because you're already on a .NET stack, or is there another reason?
Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
#9Wow... Nice one.
Does anybody know if it works with Mono?
Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
#10Looks like a tangled mess of a decision engine. Why would anyone want this? Surely, there are other solutions out there that are more mature? (nagios comes to mind but is a poor example)