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Build service health dashboard using Shinken

by Rohit Gupta (speaking)

Section
Infrastructure
Technical level
Intermediate

Objective

Build a automated service service monitoring dashboard.

Description

Server monitoring tool: Shinken
  • Introduction and what all can be monitored using this tool. Features and a brief overview of Shinken web ui.
Architecture
  • Different components. Scalability and performance.
NRPE Plugins
  • Shinken if compatible with nagios nrpe plugins. Discussion on how does nrpe checks work.

Build a Service dashboard:

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Write your own nrpe plugin using python
  • Basic usage of coding...
Examples of automated service checks
  • Things to consider, some dos and donts. Advantage of python over shell.
Integrate your checks in shinken
  • Editing configuration files.

Speaker bio

@rohit01 is currently working as a developer with Plivo, one of the official sponsors of PyCon US 2013 and PyCon India 2012. He is passionate about technologies and is currently working in the area of convergence of telephony over web. Some of the projects that he has worked upon include automating the cloud management over AWS using boto, enabling High Availability, Failover solution and auto-scaling to ensure zero downtime and un-interrupted services to Plivo customers. He is also a FOSS enthusiast and was instrumental in promoting it by organizing the first ever InstallFest (with fedora 10) in his university, founded a GNU/Linux User Group and presenting FOSS tech talks.
He was also a speaker for PyCon India 2012 and gave a talk on 'Managing AWS Cloud with Python'.