+1 for the initiative. i don't believe personally enabling monitoring by default should be the right way to go (since we all use nixos in different contexts), but having a commented instructions in generated configurations.nix would be the way to go.
it would be nice if systemd monitoring stuff could be used as well: https://github.com/garbas/dotfiles/blob/master/nixos/rok.nix#L236 above line makes systemd-cgtop showing numbers. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Alexei Robyn <sha...@shados.net> wrote: > Seems interesting. You mention alerts for "System software too old.", but > the only vaguely-universal definition of "too old" I can think of would be > "missing security updates", and that's both debatable and an area where > NixOS is currently fairly lacking in infrastructure and tooling. > > Default collection of metrics beyond what is necessary to provide useful > alerts is a bad idea. Alerts have essentially universal usefulness, > statistics less so - they're unnecessary for most desktops and small > servers. At least until you have issues, so of course it'd be nice if they > were easy to switch on :p. > > - Alexei > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, at 12:40 AM, Svein Ove Aas wrote: > > Hi all, > > People who are not interested in reliability or monitoring can stop reading > now. > > -- > > I've written up a "design doc" (statement of intent?) for how we might do > monitoring-by-default. Once I think there is a reasonable level of consensus > about how we should do this, I'll go ahead and implement what's in the > document, but I'd like to make sure we're all on the same page first; > especially as I want this to be on by default. > > So I'd like your input. Can you take a look? > > -- > Svein Ove Aas > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Rok Garbas http://www.garbas.si r...@garbas.si _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev