[Gluster-users] Diamond metrics collector

Charles Williams chuck at itadmins.net
Fri Mar 18 20:39:23 UTC 2016


Grant,

Thanks for the reminder. Just forked, uploaded and submitted the PR.

Chuck

On Fr, 2016-03-18 at 10:27 -0700, Grant Ridder wrote:
> 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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