Currently we're monitoring:
DB
Error Events Via API
Management JVMs
Overall Capacity
General Host Systems
Host Capacity
Host Hypervisor
Cloudstack System VMs

Most of it is just using 'off the shelf OSS components:

https://github.com/swisstxt/cloudstack-nagios
https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:libvirt
https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-java

@Rafael, are you guys not using any kind of config management?  If not, I'd
highly suggest it.


On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Rafael Weingärtner <
rafaelweingart...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> You said you were going to enable SNMP on your hosts. Out of curiosity,
> what is the size of your environment?
>
> That seems a pretty time consuming to enable SNMP in lots of servers.
> Despite the fact that you would have to manage and secure properly the SNMP
> into those servers.
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jpeter...@acentek.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I guess what i'm thinking is installing snmp on my server farm.  I will
> > check ping hdd % and cpu usage.
> >
> > 2 LB's check status of haproxy service
> > 2 DB's check status of mysqld
> > 2 CSMAN's check status of cloudstack-managment
> > 1 CSTS jump box
> > 1 Deploy server for quick redeploy of a all of the above
> >
> > Now for XenServer does anyone monitor if it's running truly i installed
> it
> > and added it to cloudstack poked around here and there when I have issues
> > turn HA off when i need to maintenance a server to apply updates but i
> > don't currently monitor if the virtualization is running which i would
> like
> > to and check cpu usage.
> >
> > I do have alerts in CloudStack setup that emails me on those issues, but
> > managment wants to get everything under one roof to have graphing of
> usage
> > trends.
> >
> > Basically the host statistics in CloudStack sent out to a 3rd party would
> > be great.
> >
> > Jeremy
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Stephan Seitz <s.se...@secretresearchfacility.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 4:13 AM
> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
> >
> > We've added our acs infrastructure into our checkMK monitoring using the
> > agents (for XS we've installed the CentOS rpm's) as well as SNMP. Works
> > reliable except we haven't written any checks for VM metrics so far.
> >
> > Am Freitag, den 16.10.2015, 21:25 +0000 schrieb Jeremy Peterson:
> > > We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate
> > environment.  Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be
> > added to that monitoring software.  One of the software titles we are
> > looking at is DataDogHQ.
> > >
> > > https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
> > >
> > > Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your
> > cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
> > >
> > > jeremy
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Rafael Weingärtner
>

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