[Gluster-users] Diamond metrics collector

[Niels de Vos]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 02:24:00PM +0100, Charles Williams wrote:
> On Mi, 2016-03-16 at 14:07 +0100, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:51:52AM +0100, Charles Williams wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > > 
> > > Finally took the time to hammer out a Diamond metrics collector. 
> > > It's 
> > > currently functional beta (in production on one of our gluster 
> > > clusters). Would like to get some help testing it a bit. So if you 
> > > have Diamond collecting metrics for you then try it out.
> > > 
> > > https://wiki.itadmins.net/filesystems/glusterfs_diamond_metrics
> > 
> > I'm missing a little detail here. I've never heard of "Diamond 
> > metrics"
> > before. A little duckduckgo'ing suggests that it would be this 
> > project:
> > 
> >   https://github.com/python-diamond/Diamond
> > 
> > That sounds very interesting. Monitoring is something every 
> > environment
> > needs and each one has different requirements. Diamond support for
> > Gluster can definitely use some examples.
> > 
> > Do you think you could write a blog post or wiki article that 
> > contains
> > screenshots or so? It also may be very helpful to get your collector
> > included in the standard Diamond installation. Have you thought about
> > sending it to the python-Diamond project?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Niels
> 
> Niels,
> 
> Anyone needing this collector knows what diamond is already. ;)
> 
> But I guess I could have added a bit of context for those NOT in the 
> know. And that is the correct project. It used to belong to BrighCove 
> but they gave it up a while ago.
> 
> I have to admit, it is a great metrics collection suit. Very lite-
> weight, fast and extensible.
> 
> There isn't a lot to explain but will see if I can clear some time to 
> write a short something about it. Will also be submitting it for 
> inclusion in the package as soon as I feel there are no major issues 
> (hence the call for testers).

Great, thanks for explaining! I'm looking forward to see feedback from
users and your progress on inclusion in the main Diamond project.

Niels
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