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[{"user_id": 8740, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1298972520.971139, "message": "We looked at the various commercial solutions, but they get incredibly expensive very quickly.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 233452}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1298972502.491859, "message": "Currently, we're using Nagios configured by Puppet and some exported resources, but it's a bit too static for ep.io's ever-changing set of servers, so we might have to move to something slightly custom (but still using nagios plugins, no need to reimplement those).", "group_id": 5283, "id": 233451}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1299006384.4280739, "message": "We're actually using CloudKick, it's working well so far.  We're also running Munin just because it was easy to get set up with.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 237064}, {"user_id": 13340, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1299046789.7797, "message": "The last part of this presentation talks about Watchdog which looks like a pretty nice Python-based server monitoring and data-collection daemon. http://www.slideshare.net/ffunction/fabric-cuisine-and-watchdog-for-server-administration-in-python", "group_id": 5283, "id": 245304}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299056436.4275091, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1299056314.9654191, "message": "@natea Given the code quality of Cuisine (I haven't looked at Watchdog) too I would be very wary of using that for something important.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 245698}, {"user_id": 13340, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1299109651.4876029, "message": "@coderanger I hadn't looked at the code yet, only the presentation. Thanks for letting me know your take on it.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 254564}, {"user_id": 13340, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1299109835.2216229, "message": "@andrewgodwin @ericflo we're evaluating Reconnoiter (https://labs.omniti.com/labs/reconnoiter) which has fault detection and trending. It's seeing a lot of active development right now.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 254572}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1299109979.615936, "message": "We use collectd for monitoring (and looking at linking it to Graphite possibly for ad-hoc visualization) and a mix of collectd's alerting and some custom scripts the read the collectd data.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 254582}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1299145511.083936, "message": "@natea Interesting, hadn't seen that. Seems the site suffers from the same poor documentation of \"what does it do, exactly\" that everywhere else does, however.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 259298}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1299145535.8657811, "message": "Also, I'm wary of even installing PHP on servers these days, though we do at least have a separate monitoring server.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 259300}, {"user_id": 13340, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1299181634.0243869, "message": "@andrewgodwin yeah, sucks that the front-end is written in PHP. opens up a whole bunch of potential security threats. isolating it to a separate monitoring server is the way to go.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 262896}, {"user_id": 5863, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1300192894.948499, "message": "Only PHP app I'll go near now is Ganglia, and always run that on a separate server. It's far too useful not to have around.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 355279}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1300491119.652961, "message": "@audreyr Wow, thats saying something given the labyrinth of awful that is Nagios configs :-P", "group_id": 5283, "id": 385945}, {"user_id": 15046, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1300489362.8390839, "message": "We use Nagios on a separate monitoring server. I tried CloudKick but found Nagios config files easier to deal with.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 385824}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1300493047.4506021, "message": "By comparison, we didn't use CloudKick because of how much it costs.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 386041}, {"user_id": 5863, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9634, "date_created": 1300569305.025471, "message": "I don't like cloudkick because it's too ready to throw away data except on the high end plans. And that data is gold for capacity planning.", "group_id": 5283, "id": 389557}]