DevOps tools in a nutshell

Re:DevOps tools in a nutshell by zedpm on Sunday July 31, 2016 @04:14PM (#12198620)

The main missing category I noticed was monitoring. Host and service monitoring are critical to maintaining stable systems, so it's a glaring oversight to exclude it. Some common solutions for monitoring are Nagios, Icinga, and Sensu.

Oddly enough, the author mentions Nagios under the Logging heading. Nagios does offer a log server product, but it's not commonly used and when someone says Nagios, they almost always mean the monitoring solution.

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Re:DevOps tools in a nutshell by eddieroger on Sunday July 31, 2016 @04:48PM (#12198770)

They also neglected to mention metrics, which I think is the twin sibling to logging. Metrics tell you what is happening, logs tell you what happened. Monitoring can be built off metrics as well, or by an external source pinging in (or both, realistically).

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Re:DevOps tools in a nutshell by dtemp on Monday August 01, 2016 @11:35PM (#12207701)

Of the monitoring solutions, which is the "easiest" to deploy and optionally simplest? My impression of Nagios is that it's a pain in the behind.

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