Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Aaron Nichols
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > That has already been discussed in the thread - are you OK with the plugin > idea? > I think so - having an easy built-in default would be ideal. > Knowing you have 180k metrics is only one factor > > How many users (both humans and pro

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Aaron Nichols
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Maxime Brugidou wrote: > I don't understand why all this is necessary. > > I strongly disagree with the "horizontal scalability" of mongoDB ( i run a > very large mongodb cluster in production in addition to other databases) > and would rather suggest a pluggable b

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
We may want to clarify what services from Mongo are we gonna use. Is the intention to use it as a key/value store or use it for things like capped collections (http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/use-capped-collections-for-fast-writes-and-reads/). Currently w

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Khrist Hansen
Happy AIX Ganglia user here thanks to all of Dr. Perzl’s generous efforts! :) From: Alexander Karner [mailto:a...@de.ibm.com] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 3:07 AM To: Daniel Pocock Cc: ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

Re: [Ganglia-general] ganglia-web's RRD flush not working with rrdcached's TCP listener (gmetad 3.7.0)

2014-03-28 Thread Gustavo Randich
I fixed the problem using both listeners as Vladimir pointed. Thanks On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: > I don't believe there is any code in Ganglia web that explicitly flushes > it. IIRC rrdcached will flush it on demand whenever you try to access an > RRD that is cach

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/03/14 14:39, Aaron Nichols wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Maxime Brugidou > mailto:maxime.brugi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I don't understand why all this is necessary. > > I strongly disagree with the "horizontal scalability" of mongoDB ( > i run a very large mongodb cl

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/03/14 11:41, Michael Perzl wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > with the introduction of MongoDB you would exclude all big-endian > architectures immediately as MongoDB is little-endian only. > Although there has been big-endian support requested for MongoDB and > some attempts have been made in this dire

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Michael Perzl
Hi Daniel, with the introduction of MongoDB you would exclude all big-endian architectures immediately as MongoDB is little-endian only. Although there has been big-endian support requested for MongoDB and some attempts have been made in this direction but at the moment MongoDB is still little-

[Ganglia-general] [GSOC] Web portal integrating popular monitoring tools

2014-03-28 Thread Gaurav
Hello, I am an undergraduate student and have applied for ganglia project "Web portal integrating popular monitoring tools". I am very interested in it. Unifying multiple web-interfaces in single Web-Portal seems to be a great Idea. I have read daniel's blog post and have joined the mailing li

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 27/03/14 21:43, Alex Dean wrote: > On Mar 27, 2014, at 3:07 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> The introduction of RabbitMQ is an optional dependency. It would allow >> users to send commands from the web interface. > 1. Why add the extra dependency on rabbitmq? As long as you're adding a > persis

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 28/03/14 09:07, Alexander Karner wrote: > Hi! > > I think we should continue to put an emphasis on portability: > Ganglia is not only used in Linux environments but also on AIX, HP-UX, > Solaris etc. > This includes both, gmond and gmetad (+webserver). > In the earlier reply from Adam, the idea

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Alexander Karner
Hi! I think we should continue to put an emphasis on portability: Ganglia is not only used in Linux environments but also on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris etc. This includes both, gmond and gmetad (+webserver). Personally I'd suggest to check, which tools are available in those platforms. For the DB this

Re: [Ganglia-general] Ganglia 4.x architecture planning

2014-03-28 Thread Maxime Brugidou
I don't understand why all this is necessary. I strongly disagree with the "horizontal scalability" of mongoDB ( i run a very large mongodb cluster in production in addition to other databases) and would rather suggest a pluggable backend with a simpler default (like text files or maybe postgresql