[Gluster-users] Diamond metrics collector

[Grant Ridder]

Charles,

Thanks for the write-up!  I see near the end you mention "Until the
collector is officially accepted into the Diamond project" but i don't see
a PR on the GitHub repo for the project.  Can you elaborate on this?

-Grant

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Charles Williams <chuck at itadmins.net>
wrote:

> On Mi, 2016-03-16 at 17:42 +0100, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > 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
>
> ok peeples,
>
> here is a quick writeup I did. just touches on a few points and
> explains briefly how the install goes.
>
>
> https://www.itadmins.net/2016/03/18/getting-useful-metrice-from-glusterfs-into-grafana-using-diamond/#more-678
>
> enjoy
>
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