On 02/08/2018 01:46 PM, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On 07/02/18 19:46, Julien Cristau wrote: > >> == Monitoring and metrics >> We are currently using icinga for monitoring and munin for graphing, but >> these tools are showing their age. We would like to experiment with >> Prometheus and something like grafana. However, it's unclear at this >> point what the deployment would look like, and grafana is not in stable >> or testing. > Like I had offered soon after I got Prometheus into Debian, I would be > happy to help DSA in adopting Prometheus. I can also offer assistance to > assess if it is a good fit for DSA. > Thanks!
> Right now, support in Debian is pretty strong, with the newest releases > being present in testing and stable-backports. > > Grafana is a problem, I know, but I hope that as the interest in > prometheus grows, I will get some help in getting Grafana back in shape. > In any case, Grafana is not needed at all to use Prometheus, it is just > a shiny front-end. > I think grafana (or something like it) is going to be needed if we want to get rid of munin eventually. Certainly not a blocker to setting up and playing with prometheus though. Cheers, Julien
