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Re:Ask HN: large system monitoring on Saturday January 24, 2009 @02:52PM (#448339)
I am after both of these but also I need a way to aggregate a lot of log files and perform actions like "If there was no log entry X in the last N days send an email" or "If system A wrote N entries to database and system B did not process any in time T perform some action or raise an alarm". I would guess a kind of aggregating of events and running scripts based on what happened. All the systems could be modified to log to an additional place if needed.

Ask HN: large system monitoring

I'm an admin at a fairly large company with plenty of database servers, virtual machines and all kinds of custom distributed software that processes a lot of data. I'm interested to hear what others are using for monitoring large systems. What kind of system did you put in place? How do you process logs, events, hardware and software failures etc. Do you use a proprietary system or something...

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