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Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source

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Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source

#11

Having 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…

Take a look at http://squash.io before you build your own.

Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source

#15

Having 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…

Seriously take a look at Sentry[1]. It supports just about every major language out there, is open source and used on some very large web properties (disqus, which powers comments for cnn.com amongst others), and is just generally awesome software. If you don't want to set it up yourself, use their hosted version[2].

If you are a .net / C# guy check out their csharp raven client[3]. Raven is the client to sentry which automatically sends all exceptions.

[1] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry

[2] https://getsentry.com/welcome

[3] https://github.com/getsentry/raven-csharp

Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source

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post #14

I understand that it's not worth the cost to cleanup the history, but it's always frustrating to see such a project come with a 100kloc "initial" commit.

Interesting. Why? What would be valuable about the commit history for you?

Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source

#17
Looks nice, sadly it's just overkill for what I need.

Has anyone built a very simple solution to start/stop an arbitrary set of Windows services across several boxes, in a specific order? It'd be nice to have a simple GUI for this sort of thing. I've started working on it, but I suck at desktop programming (well, at programming in general, probably)...

Re: Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source

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post #14

I understand that it's not worth the cost to cleanup the history, but it's always frustrating to see such a project come with a 100kloc "initial" commit.

Interesting. Why? What would be valuable about the commit history for you?

The same things that are valuable about any commit history?
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