I'm in favor of teaching gmetad how to send the metrics it collects to a wider variety of things, particularly if there's a plugin interface for writing them.
- Adam On 3/27/14 1:07 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > I made up a rough diagram about how Ganglia 4.x could look: > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ganglia/monitor-core/master/doc/planning/ganglia-4.x.png > > The biggest change is the introduction of MongoDB > > Instead of having the gmetad serve up an XML every time somebody asks to > see the web page, the gmetad will just store current values into MongoDB. > > This means that web frameworks (like PHP) can query the data from > MongoDB, which is much more horizontally scalable and more suited to > serving this data. For large sites where many users access the web > reports, this will be very useful. > > MongoDB is also a backend for rsyslog daemon now and could potentially > be a Nagios backend, so it would be a great way to unify monitoring data. > > The introduction of RabbitMQ is an optional dependency. It would allow > users to send commands from the web interface. > > One of the motivations for this work is the Google Summer of Code > projects. Each student can potentially work on a different part of this > puzzle and at the end of the year we could launch it as Ganglia 4.0 if > people like it. > > Regards, > > Daniel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general