Hi Bill: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:26 AM, William Saxton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all (potential) new ganglia user here, with a couple quick questions > that I couldn't find the answers to via google. Welcome! > 1) Where can I find how ganglia gathers information from a system? I'm > specifically looking to compare how, for example, Solaris gathers its > information (probably through kstat) and Linux gathers its (probably via > /proc) but I'm looking, specifically, for the code that shows this. Is > it available? You can find the code here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ganglia/browser/trunk/monitor-core/libmetrics If you're looking for specific issues with an existing version, you can look them up in their respective branches/tags. > 2) Does anyone have any experience with using ganglia, just as a backend > for storage of RRD data, but then using their own custom front-end? We > are currently using our own home-grown RRD back-end/front-end solution > and, although ganglia looks like a more robust method of data > collection/storage...we're thinking we might just want to port that for > a back-end solution and continue using our own front-end. Most users just use the standard frontend. Users of larger sites tend to do more customizations to make Ganglia work more to their needs. However we are also working on the next generation of the frontend which will be much more user-friendly and customizable: http://vuksan.com/blog/2010/12/10/rethinking-ganglia-web-ui/ You can see a demo of it in action: http://fjrkr5ab.joyent.us/ganglia-2.0/ But we are also perfectly fine if you want to keep using your own frontend, you can take a look at the PHP code to see how the integration would work. Actually, I think Tobi is working on "one frontend to rule them all", so that you can integrate a bunch of different monitoring solutions but using one unified dashboard. The holy grail of monitoring systems, if you will :) Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
