Roll out active Supervision with Salt, Graphite and Grafana

Arthur Lutz

Salt - Monday, 1/2/2016 15:40- B4.042

Having difficulties with passively testing your infrastructure with old-school supervision software ? Reverse the trend by doing active checks automated by Salt reusing Nagios checks and Munin plugins, collect them in Graphite and explore them by building graphs in Grafana, finally define alerts with tools like Graphite-beacon or Cabot. Adopt Salt and its flexibility, modularity and event bus that will add software glue between your existing applications and help you scale them. This presentation will be looking at how to solve some scalability issues in monitoring and migrating from traditional tools to newer tools while keeping existing developments.

Slides: http://slides.logilab.fr/2016/cfgmgmtcamp_salt_active_supervision/

Demo code: https://bitbucket.org/arthurlogilab/salt_graphite_grafana/

About Arthur Lutz

Arthur Lutz has been working for more than 10 years with Logilab on free open source software, as a developer and systems administrator. He has been using, deploying and contributing to Salt for the past 3 years and is a Salt Certified Engineer. He is one of the main organisers of the Salt Community in Paris (France).