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monitoring and alerting

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Self-hosted, open-source infrastructure monitoring and alerting

Shown by dbuxton on Jan 13, 2014. Click the card to turn it over.

82points

34comments

#356of 2,272 in 2014

Top 16%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

2 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.

Idea: 0 for, 1 against

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Positive early deployment experience
From 1 comment
- I deployed it at work last Friday and i'm in love with it already. :) Good job guys!
  wut42 on HN

Alerting only by email, HipChat, SMS and phone; no HTTP webhooks at first
From 1 comment
- That's monitoring. Alerting seems only possible via Email, Hipchat, SMS and Telephone.
  Wouter33 on HN

Webhook or HTTP alert notifications
From 2 comments
- Understood. No it doesn't at the moment, would be trivial to add.
  AJP1 on HN
- Primary author here. Please add an issue at https://github.com/arachnys/cabot/issues/new and we'll look into adding. (Essentially that's all Hipchat is).
  dbuxton on HN
Support for multihomed services reachable by many routes
From 1 comment
- Can Cabot handle "multihomed" services? I have services running remotely, that are accessible through a variety of communication methods (VPNs, SSH tunnels, 3G modems, and…
  beagle3 on HN

Can it run on OS X?
From 1 comment
- Can this be deployed on a OSX? If so can you provide instructions on how to deploy this on a local OSX server? Thank you.
  BaconJuice on HN

Nagios
From 1 comment
- Cool project, but I can't help but wonder why people are so quick to rewrite Nagios instead of spending less time and learning about Nagios. The DSL isn't that confusing, and…
  falcolas on HN
Icinga
From 1 comment
- Agreed. I think one of the best things about Nagios is all the readily available plugins. I suspect more than enough to cover the current functionality of Cabot. I think…
  michaelmior on HN
Zabbix
From 1 comment
- I think Zabbix can do what you want with trigger dependencies. https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/config/host_and_trigger_dependencies Though I'm not sure about the…
  mhurron on HN
Opsview
From 1 comment
- Opsview, Icinga, Groundworks, Nagios XI, etc... also put a decent UI on top of Nagios Core.
  jorts on HN
Salmon
From 1 comment
- Salmon is a monitoring/alerting system built on Django. https://github.com/lincolnloop/salmon
  chanux on HN