MVmvillatech·Aug 11, 2019Submission
Easy monitoring (free, open source) without Nagios
11 points · Open discussionarachnys
cabot
JavaScript2014–2019
arachnys / cabot
cabot
Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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9 sourcesWe're currently investigating two solutions:
1) https://github.com/arachnys/cabot
2) Prometheus with https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
Keen to hear what others are using
In How the Friday DDoS Attack Affected PingdomArachnys | Frontend, backend and data engineers | London, New York
We help organisations from banks to charities solve their compliance problems, focussing on AML/KYC checks and deeper investigative dives - for instance, our software was used by the ICIJ to dig into the Panama Papers. Think big Hadoop clusters sucking in feeds from thousands of sources in over 100 languages and making sense of it.
Lots of the clever things we do are in-house, but we also participate in open source: see https://github.com/arachnys/athenapdf and https://github.com/arachnys/cabot for side projects that have got lots of community traction.
https://www.arachnys.com/jobs/
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)Open source, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service like PagerDuty
3 points · Open discussionI was looking for something like this the other day and I found a few open source apps: https://github.com/fzaninotto/uptime and https://github.com/arachnys/cabot
It would be good to find one that I could deploy on app engine.
In Show HN: Updown.io, a simple and cheap website monitoring serviceIt's not clear from your comment exactly what you're looking to do, but difficulty of configuration was more or less why we built Cabot (https://github.com/arachnys/cabot) internally for monitoring our infrastructure. However very possibly you're trying to do something more complicated.
In On Riemann (network monitoring app and dashboard)Primary author here. Please add an issue at https://github.com/arachnys/cabot/issues/new and we'll look into adding. (Essentially that's all Hipchat is).
In Show HN: Self-hosted, open-source infrastructure monitoring and alertingIs that what you need? http://cabotapp.com/use/http-checks.html or open an issue on: https://github.com/arachnys/cabot
In Show HN: Self-hosted, open-source infrastructure monitoring and alertingReplace PagerDuty w/ Cabot self-hosted, ez2deploy monitoring & alerts svc
2 points · Open discussion