Give yourself time to sleep
summary
Production monitoring stack that scales to >100 projects and 30 servers and handles ~2,000 checks per minute while using only ~10% capacity. Uses Sensu (server, clients, API, Uchiwa dashboard) with RabbitMQ transport and Redis event storage, supports automated remediation scripts that can reboot services. Metrics pipeline is RabbitMQ → Redis for events, Sensu relay → Carbon/Whisper → Grafana for graphs and alerts with configurable retention. Centralized logging uses Graylog with streams and extractors for per-client isolation and alerting. Initial build takes ~3 days, repeat deploys in ~4 hours.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Give yourself time to sleep Painless system monitoring
- 0:47We're an independent design & development agency.
- 3:43SENSU ARCHITECTURE
- 6:41THE GLUE Used for communication with dashboards and external services
- 7:42SENSU DASHBOARD Open-source
- 8:49REALLY POWERFUL and simple
- 10:04SIMPLE CONFIGURATION with advanced features
- 13:34CARBON-CACHE with aggregation and relays
- 14:33CONFIGS CONFIGS CONFIGS just the way you like it
- 15:21WHISPER DATABASE
- 16:19DATA AGGREGATION
- 17:40RELIES ON GRAPHITE WEB Unfortunately
- 17:53BEAUTIFUL METRICS and graphing
- 18:18SUPPORT FOR TEMPLATING Easily switch between servers
- 18:37MULTI-USER SUPPORT And multiple organisations too!
- 20:07CENTRALIZED LOGGING
- 20:46SEARCH And charts, everyone loves charts
- 20:56EASY-TO-USE FRONTED
- 23:39INPUTS Data entry point
- 26:08NOTIFICATIONS
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