Brad-
Can you open a new thread on the developer's list? I think there's going
to be quite a bit of interest in a REST interface to Ganglia. It would be
really useful to have. I know I've been tempted to write one myself.
-Matt
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Vladimir Vuksan <vli...@veus.hr> wrote:
> I am sure lots of people would appreciate REST interface to Ganglia.
> Myself and Jeff Buchbinder have been talking on how we could implement
> it but if you already have it completed that would be an awesome
> addition ;-).
>
> Vladimir
>
> On 02.12.2011 10:45, Brad Nicholes wrote:
> > Hey Matt,
> > How are you? It's been a while. I know I haven't been biggest
> > contributor to the Ganglia project lately but I still monitor the
> > mailing lists and this book sounds like a great idea. Count me in
> > anywhere I can help.
> >
> > On a slightly different note:
> >
> > I have managed to carve out a little time over the past few weeks to
> > get back into a little Ganglia development. Since we are gauging
> > interest, would anybody be interested in a REST interface for
> > Ganglia?
> > I have worked up a POC that allows a user to query metrics from
> > gmetad through REST as well as pull data and graphs directly from the
> > RRD files. I still have to get permission from my employer before I
> > can contribute the REST code to the Ganglia project, but before I go
> > to that effort I just wanted to see if this is something that the
> > Ganglia community would be interested in.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
> >
> >>>> On 12/1/2011 at 12:31 PM, in message
> > <CABcEujsJET24+hhHyVqAQ48aj_4YjfZsimGz=vmw06mnu86...@mail.gmail.com>,
> > Matt
> > Massie <m...@massie.us> wrote:
> >> There's an O'reilly editor who's interested in publishing a ~50-page
> >> eBook
> >> on ganglia.
> >>
> >> I have no doubt the ganglia community would benefit from a book
> >> covering
> >> topics like:
> >>
> >> - Ganglia's components and overall architecture
> >> - Typical deployment configurations including simple steps for
> >> verifying
> >> an installation (e.g. unicast/multicast, single cluster/multiple
> >> distributed clusters/datacenter)
> >> - Navigating and using the new web interface
> >> - Tips for extending ganglia's functionality (e.g. gmetric,
> >> modules)
> >> - Common integration points (e.g. Hadoop metrics, Nagios)
> >> - A simple step-by-step checklist for debugging common ganglia
> >> issues
> >> with pointers to our web site, mailing lists, irc channel, etc.
> >> - Supported platforms and core metrics
> >> - Scaling to clusters > 1000 nodes
> >>
> >> These are just ideas off the top of my head and not meant to final
> >> or
> >> comprehensive but meant to provide a list for discussion. Of
> >> course, let
> >> me know if there's topics the community would like to know more (or
> >> less)
> >> about. The purpose of the book is to serve as a first-read book for
> >> people
> >> new to ganglia. Keep in mind, for much of the book, we won't be
> >> starting
> >> from scratch. We already have a good amount of documentation that
> >> just
> >> needs to be organized and edited.
> >>
> >> I'll be happy to contribute time to make this eBook a reality;
> >> however, I
> >> want the book authors to be the leaders and experts in the ganglia
> >> community. I think it best we divide and conquer and write the book
> >> as a
> >> team. Who is interesting in helping write the book?
>
>
>
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