On 2011-06-28 16:50, Meyer, Mark wrote: > Hi List! > We hacked an Icinga module to transfer our performance data into a Cassandra > instance. We use an off-the-shelf message queue (0mq) to get the data there. > Anybody interested in this solution? I could prepare a release during the > weekend.
is this only targetted on performance data, or would this touch general check execution / results ? either way, i'd love to see some code :) kind regards, Michael > When looking at an rrd based solution (which we're using now), the deficits > are: > > - changing data retention on the fly is not easily possible > - upon a change in the data sources for a check, pnp4nagios will silently > stop updating the rrd > - in case the database can't keep up with the data written, icinga will > not go into coma (happened with our old nagios) > > We fixed these and got the following advantages for free: > > - writes to Cassandra are *way* faster than writes to mysql > - on the other hand if you're really trying to break your equipment, data > will be dropped from the message queue (without stopping Icinga) but can in > theory be cached on disk > > What we're presently planning: > > - connecting multiple icinga instances: use the message queue over slow > links with disk backup, in case the link failes > - rewrite check names on the message queue level, to connect various > customers to our nagios instance, without allowing them to rewrite our checks > (as nsca does) > - extends the web interface and the Cassandra writer as to support a > limited form of real time analytics for performance data > > Regards, Mark > > akquinet outsourcing gem. GmbH > Paul-Stritter-Weg 5 ▪ D-22297 Hamburg > > Fon: +49 (0)40-881 73-4243 > Fax: +49 (0)40-881 73-199 > E-Mail: [email protected] > www.akquinet.de > > - > akquinet outsourcing gGmbH, Hamburg > Geschäftsführung: Hartmut Clausen, Jens Ehlers, Klaus-Dieter Gerken > Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 91384 > USt.-Id. Nr.: DE 239 299 699 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users -- DI (FH) Michael Friedrich Vienna University Computer Center Universitaetsstrasse 7 A-1010 Vienna, Austria email: [email protected] phone: +43 1 4277 14359 mobile: +43 664 60277 14359 fax: +43 1 4277 14338 web: http://www.univie.ac.at/zid http://www.aco.net Icinga Core& IDOUtils Developer http://www.icinga.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users
