Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
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Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
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Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
#2Very interesting. As one of the sufferers who struggled many times with setting up icinga2 with distributed (and SSL-Encrypted) monitoring, this automation takes a way a lot of the hassle. I think it is one step in the right direction. Reminds me with: https://mailinabox.email/
Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
#3Really nice setup, I'm glad to see Ansible being used to orchestrate the machines. I really do like that system for it's ease of use and low learning-curve.
Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
#4Wondering what the free version uses if it doesn't include graphite for dashboarding. It also feels way more invasive to have to install Ansible on all of my servers instead of just statsd plus a config file to point it at a host. (Edit: it's not required.)
Nice to have a supported, pro-grade monitoring product that isn't priced per server, finally.
Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
#5I'm impressed with this project's messaging and support/feature pricing structure. I think trying to find more sustainable models for funding open-source software is interesting, and I don't recall seeing this exact approach used before (i.e. free version w/o LE or Graphana support). It'd be amazing if a percentage of each support contract gets donated back to upstream projects like icinga2, Graphana, and LE.
Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
#6Wondering what the free version uses if it doesn't include graphite for dashboarding. It also feels way more invasive to have to install Ansible on all of my servers instead of just statsd plus a config file to point it at a host. (Edit: it's not required.) Nice to have a supported, pro-grade monitoring product that isn't priced per server, finally.
Hi zbjornson, regarding your question about "Wondering what the free version uses if it doesn't include graphite for dashboarding": the answer is that free version just includes the icingaweb dashboards and not those implemented with grafana.
Also I'd like to clarify a possible misunderstanding: Monitor in a Box does not require that ansible be installed on all the servers. We only require that ansible be installed on the one machine that orchestrates the setup of Monitor in a Box.
Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
#7Wondering what the free version uses if it doesn't include graphite for dashboarding. It also feels way more invasive to have to install Ansible on all of my servers instead of just statsd plus a config file to point it at a host. (Edit: it's not required.) Nice to have a supported, pro-grade monitoring product that isn't priced per server, finally.
Hi zbjornson, regarding your question about "Wondering what the free version uses if it doesn't include graphite for dashboarding": the answer is that free version just includes the icingaweb dashboards and not those implemented with grafana. Also I'd like to clarify a possible misunderstanding: Monitor in a Box does not require that ansible be installed on all the servers. We only require that ansible be installed o…
Ah, thanks for clarifying, I misunderstood that part of your FAQ.
Looking forward to trying it out.
Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
#8I would love to read more about your product/service/idea.
But I can't.
Being visually impaired just makes things worse. Your site doesn't work with FireFox 'Reader View', and that forces me to 'Toggle CSS' off which causes the icons and site-design to be FUBAR.
You might have the best damn product in the world, but if I can't read about it on your own pages then it's no good to me.
I only found out that you use Ansible from the comments on here from another poster. I really want to know about this now as I have migrated our entire datacenter to Ansible, and I really love it.
Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
#9Very interesting. As one of the sufferers who struggled many times with setting up icinga2 with distributed (and SSL-Encrypted) monitoring, this automation takes a way a lot of the hassle. I think it is one step in the right direction. Reminds me with: https://mailinabox.email/
This is very interesting, thank you for sharing!
Re: Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi zbjornson, regarding your question about "Wondering what the free version uses if it doesn't include graphite for dashboarding": the answer is that free version just includes the icingaweb dashboards and not those implemented with grafana. Also I'd like to clarify a possible misunderstanding: Monitor in a Box does not require that ansible be installed on all the servers. We only require that ansible be installed o…
Ah, thanks for clarifying, I misunderstood that part of your FAQ. Looking forward to trying it out.
The free version doesn't provide any visualizations other than what you see in the icingaweb dashboards. The icinga demo (not grafana) should give you an idea of what I mean: https://solutions.stacktile.io/demo
In the spirit of shameless self-promotion, I invite you to clone our git repo and see for yourself! :-)