Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts

Re:Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all feature... by AngryParsley on Thursday July 29, 2010 @06:16PM (#1559473)

Sounds like you set up the Cloudkick agent. If you really want to take advantage of the agent, try out some custom plugins (https://support.cloudkick.com/Agent/Custom_Plugins). We've cleaned up a few that we use internally and made them available at http://github.com/cloudkick/agent-plugins

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Re:Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all feature... by brandon on Thursday July 29, 2010 @06:34PM (#1559541)

Indeed. I'm a Debian user, so it only took a minute to get the agent running which I appreciated a lot.

It seems like the only piece missing is graphing and alerting on bandwidth usage with the agent. Linode provides a nice set of hypervisor-level views of IO/CPU/Bandwidth but they're really only useful historically and from a billing perspective. On second thought, this sounds like an awesome way to get familiar with the plugin interface ;)

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Re:Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all feature... by AngryParsley on Thursday July 29, 2010 @07:45PM (#1559745)

There's a bandwidth check type. Click on the monitor tab, then click on new monitor, then select Bandwidth in the check type drop-down.

We don't support alerting on bandwidth usage yet, but that check will alert if the interface is down.

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Re:Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all feature... by elasticdog on Friday July 30, 2010 @02:07PM (#1562011)

Any way to build the agent from source? I run Arch Linux on my Linode and would love to try out the added functionality.

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Re:Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all feature... by AngryParsley on Friday July 30, 2010 @06:41PM (#1562835)

The plan is to open source the agent in the near future.

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