[CentOS-devel] [RFC] Operational tools SIG (was logging and monitoring...)

[Rich Megginson]

On 05/24/2016 07:48 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> On 24/05/16 15:20, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 13/05/16 08:12, Matthias Runge wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to re-iterate my interest in having a SIG in CentOS
>>> to provide all kinds of tools for operators providing
>>> infrastructure by using CentOS.
>>>
>>> The scope should be more than just simply packaging applications.
>>> Another part should be to provide puppet manifests or ansible playbooks
>>> to get things quicker up and running.
>>>
>>> Ideally, I would start with providing something like
>>> * elsasticsearch/fluentd/kibana for centralised logging
>>> * collectd/graphite/grafana for performance monitoring
>>> * sensu/uchiwa for availability monitoring
>>>
>>> We have already seen around 10 persons interested in helping, testing,
>>> trying out and providing feedback.
>>>
>>> For communcations etc. I would propose to start small, and to share
>>> already existent CentOS channels (email-lists, irc-channel). This
>>> decision should be revisited, once amount of SIG related communication
>>> becomes annoying in general channels.
>>>
>>> Questions? Thoughts? Additions?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>
>> how much of this overlaps with the config management SIG ?
>>
> I would state, it doesn't overlap, which is not *entirely* true.
> Opstools SIG could provide scripts/configs to the other SIG. At least
> both should cooperate on getting things installed.

Right.  I think tools like fluentd, elasticsearch, kibana, etc. don't 
overlap with config, and we will work with the Config SIG on 
configuration management best practices for the OpsTools SIG packages.

>
> Best,
> Matthias
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