On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Karthik Reddy <[email protected]>wrote:
> You could refer to google Maps API and write a small script to display the > required output. > > https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference +1. IMO, it may be better to own all your data, control it the way you want it and view/make sense out of it in your own way than use some app which produces data in a way that is not easy to consume company-wide. For this reason applications like Zabbix lure you into a trap - they have all these features you know you want, but they come with a 'technical debt' due to the various design decisions already made for you (such as to use an RDBMS backed data store ( or embed SQL everywhere in the application without a second thought :) ) ) which will bite you at certain scales of operation even if it "gets you started". The problem with IT is its critical and when you become dependent on something, you don't want to change it. So it may be a smarter thing to get the basics right the very first time and do some work ourselves than go shopping for an "end-to-end solution". For example, one could use mondemand + LWES to setup a programmable, distributed event monitoring/management framework. LWES + mondemand helped us have decentralized, need-based monitoring and IT automation solutions at a startup where I last worked. Once the basics got setup right, we could setup a dashboard like the one you're asking for in a couple of days - all simply because we figured this entire stuff will be data-intensive and decided to use a Cassandra based custom data store for storing metrics. Similarly, extending our in-house applications to 'instrument' new metrics into it was also quite easy. Doing this the "Zabbix" way or "Nagios" way would have been royally painful since we'd be trying to 'fit' stuff into the monitoring app than make the system flow its natural course. cheers, -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry Driven Talent Factory http://careergear.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
