Hey all - 

Wondering if there's ever been any talk about serving up the interactive port 
info via REST?
Lots of talk these days in my circles about how awesome it would be to give 
other applications (think auto-configuration management, trending tools, etc.)
access to host, cluster, and grid metrics. 

My mind actually blows when I think of the possibilities if it were there. With 
all of the crazy talk these days about auto-scaling in cloud infrastructure,  
one could then
use these metrics to decide if and when to bring up new instances of servers 
(and how many) to handle increasing load.

So, something built-in to make:

echo "/WWW/www1.flickr.mud.yahoo.com/apache_procs_busy/" | nc gmetad.hostname 
8652

into

http://gmetad.hostname:8652/WWW/www1.flickr.mud.yahoo.com/apache_procs_busy/

(and all of the other stuff you can get from the interactive port)

I'd bet that all of the requests to bolt-on alerting mechanisms would go away 
if other alerting/escalation tools could get the real stuff out of ganglia, 
too. :)

Thoughts?
allspaw



      

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