Diamond

This post it's quite old and graphite ecosystem improve, some examples: Grafana from my POV is the best dashboard at the moment: http://grafana.org/ http://grafana.org/blog/2014/05/25/monitorama-video-and-upda... http://play.grafana.org/ About alert system I'm using cabot: http://cabotapp.com/ About system metrics, at the moment I'm using Diamond. https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond In the other hand, Influxdb is growing, maybe I'll switch to InfluxDB next year, some features are better than graphite, and it's statsd compatible ;-) http://influxdb.com/ Regards ;-)

Salt stack developer here, glad you find it useful! Please hop on IRC freenode #salt if you have questions, we're a pretty friendly community. As far as other tools, I use and love cobbler quite a bit, but for Ubuntu support, you need a fairly new version. Also ask on #cobbler if you're having problems. The cobbler community is healthy, but not nearly as large or active as the salt community. A few other nice tools would be collins[1] and graphite[2]. If you use OpenStack horizon, it is using graphite under the covers. Disclaimer: I'm also a developer / co-maintainer of graphite. You can join us on #graphite via IRC on FreeNode. The graphite project just released 0.9.12 and is about to start moving forward much faster. For metrics collection... I'd suggest collectd[3] with the write_graphite plugin or diamond[4]. Same as here, I'm SEJeff

We wrote something similar at Brightcove to collect system statistics and publish them graphite. It runs as an independent service and focuses on OS (not application) level metrics. https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond