On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 16:00, Bjoern Rabenstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Prometheans, > > If you are not interested at all in integrating Nagios with > Prometheus, you can stop reading now. > > Otherwise, you are probably aware of the little plugin I maintain in > the https://github.com/prometheus/nagios_plugins repository. (The > plural is a lie, I guess when the repo was created by Joshua Hoffman > back in 2013, we had bolder plans with the integration than just one > measly shell script.) > > Having an own repo in the prometheus GH org kind of suggests that > the Nagios integration is important and 1st class. Which is simply not > true. If we didn't have that repo today, we would certainly encourage > such an integrations to be maintained in a 3rd party repository, like > the hundreds of other integrations. The reason why the repo exists in > the prometheus GH org is purely historical (i.e. SoundCloud needed the > integration back then in 2013, and with essentially no other users > than SoundCloud itself, it was just natural to put it into the > prometheus GH org). > > On top of that, I am not using Nagios anymore. One of my > accomplishments at SoundCloud was to remove Nagios/Icinga from the > tech stack. And Grafana Labs, my current employer, doesn't use > Nagios/Icinga either. > > For the time being, I have been happy to keep maintaining the > prometheus/nagios_plugins repo, including reviewing the occasional bug > fix or minor improvement contributed to the project. However, > inevitably more involved feature requests or even contributions will > happen, and I don't feel qualified to review those. One of them can be > seen here: https://github.com/prometheus/nagios_plugins/issues/25 > (The discussion on that issue is what lead to this mail of mine.) > > I can see two options to go from here: > > 1. We find somebody that is qualified to maintain > prometheus/nagios_plugins in place. > > > 2. We deprecate prometheus/nagios_plugins and refer to a 3rd party > integration (possibly based on forking prometheus/nagios_plugins) that > is properly maintained and developed. In this case, I'd keep the > existing repo around until further notice, but not accepting any > contributions besides important bug fixes. > > Emil 'Skeen' Madsen, @Skeen on GH, filed above mentioned issue #25, > and he is already playing around with a feature-enriched fork. I would > now like to encourage Nagios/Icinga users to try out his fork, to be > found under https://github.com/magenta-aps/check_prometheus_metric and > give Emil feedback. If that turns out well, I suggest to go for > option (2), deprecate prometheus/nagios_plugins in lieu of > agenta-aps/check_prometheus_metric and list the latter as an > integration on https://prometheus.io > > Please let me know what you think. > This sounds reasonable to me. At some point we would kick it over to junkyard. -- Brian Brazil www.robustperception.io -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CAHJKeLodxL9K0hE7ASPpvTwYQagUBWb7V-5c1e_4e%2BQc%3Dsiukw%40mail.gmail.com.
