Monitoring Cheat SheetEdit Cheat Sheet

For a product list check Solutions Monitoring

Graphite, Diamond

 Enabling Diamond collectors:

 echo "enabled = true" >> /etc/diamond/<name>Collector.conf

 Checking Diamond collectors:

 diamond-setup -p -C <name>Collector

 grafana - Graphite / InfluxDB dashboard

 Graphite Clustering
 Graphite Backends:
o Whisper (legacy): fixed-sized database
o Ceres: sparse data, arbitrary fixed-size resolutions

Munin

 Munin - Test Plugins:

 /usr/sbin/munin-run <plugin name> # for values

 /usr/sbin/munin-run <plugin name> config # for configuration

 Munin - Test available plugins

 /usr/sbin/munin-node-configure --suggest

 # and enable them using
 /usr/sbin/munin-node-configure --shell | sh

 Munin Server - Manual Update Run:

 sudo -u munin /usr/bin/munin-cron

Nagios, Icinga

 dmesg Nagios Plugin

 Icinga 1 - status.cgi Parameters
 Icinga 1 - Object Tricks: Negative hostgroup definitions

 define service {
 ...
 hostgroup_name all,!testing
 ...
 }
  Icinga 2 - Matching check definitions on hosts/hostgroups

 apply Service "MyService" {

# service definition...
assign where host.name == "MyHost1"
assign where match("hostprefix-*", host.name)
assign where "MyHostGroup" in host.groups
}

 Mod-Gearman: Nagios distributed checking (previously called Naemon)

 Gearman Debugging:

 gearman-top

Misc

 Jolokia JMX HTTP/JSON bridge + jxm4perl