I'm evaluating m/monit on the 30 day trial. Absolutely love it, works
out of the box, and I'm already well familiar with using monit for
managing critical services - m/monit ties it all together beautifully.
One thing I'm surprised is lacking is service uptime metrics. Since
monit's primary function is ensuring that services are running rather
than hosts, I'd have thought service uptime reports would be included.
Part of my job includes a monthly report to the board of our service
availability, and as we all know, host uptime isn't directly correlated
to service uptime.
I was also somewhat surprised that only hostgroups were available and
not servicegroups. However, I noticed that the database does include a
servicegroup table, though unpopulated.
Are service uptime metrics and servicegroups in the works? I really want
to 'sell' m/monit to our CTO, but if service uptimes aren't available,
I'll have to keep nagios running in parallel to get those metrics, but
that then makes it harder to justify to the CTO purchasing m/monit
(we're a small startup, like almost everybody else in the world)...
Thanks for listening.
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Paul Theodoropoulos
www.anastrophe.com
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