Hi Jeroen, thanks for following up :)
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Jeroen Baten <[email protected]> wrote: Well, you can teach a dog a trick, but humans are able to understand things. > > This means that the question is not "icinga or prometheus" but > understanding monitoring. > This is very true. Although we need a sample implementation as a practical example in order to test something practical. > And having knowledge of how to setup monitoring. > > A short google trends shows a higher result on Prometheus but this can > also be attributed to a certain movie. > > And, why not Zabbix now we are talking about this? Easy to install from > a repo and anyone with a browser can configure it. Just click away like > any self respecting Windows admin. (yes, this is a subtle rant :-) ) > Zabbix was one of the tools mentioned less often in the studies we did so far. Although, since we're talking about the DevOps Tools Engineer exam, the tool should play well in the context of containers, microservices, etc.. > So, all the descriptions are non-specific regarding a product. > > I would suggest to make the exam also non-specific. After all this has > always been one onf the strong points for LPI. Distribution agnostic > certification. Why change that now? > Distribution agnostic is something different than agnostic of any technology. We are, for example, covering Postfix, Apache HTTPD and Dovecot, although there are alternatives for all of them. We did our best to find out which of these projects are the most relevant / didactically preferable project so we can expect a lot of candidate to be already familiar with that project and to make learning it a benefit for those who still have to. Not asking something about a specific product / project would make the examination as well as the preparation for the exam harder than it has to be. Therefore the question which monitoring tool would be the preferable one in the context of the DevOps Tools Engineer exam. Regards, Fabian
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