Anyone using consul in production ?

[Abhishek Garg]

Hello, 

I"m looking to setup a monitoring setup for my infra. I do have prior experience with Nagios and some of his fork like Icinga and Shinken.

But as i do look Consul it seems promising with much feature like,  cluster failover, DNS  and K/v store with simple api feature. So is it good to consider Consul over Icinga and Shinken for production ?

[Darron Froese]

You are able to turn Consul into one part of a monitoring solution, but it's not quite the same thing as Nagios and Shinken.

Maybe something like this is what you're after:

https://github.com/CiscoCloud/distributive

It adds the sort of checks that Nagios could provide as a small binary that runs and reports as a Consul service - as described here:

https://github.com/CiscoCloud/distributive/wiki/Working-with-Frameworks

I've never used it but it looks interesting.

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[James Phillips]

Hi Abhishek,

There's also support in Atlas that might be useful to you. The UI lets you see the status of your monitoring and there's support for alert notifications to some 3rd party services like Slack and PagerDuty:

https://atlas.hashicorp.com/help/consul/alerts

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[Abhishek Garg]

Hi Darron,

Thanks for reply back, I'll surely look for distributive. But in short time I do get this as a framework only that work with consul with nagios like exit status. But again integration (like thruk ) needed to work flawless for monitoring system in my Infra.

Till  now I'm checking shinken over consul and  I'm getting pros and cons for both. So  it doesn't make sense to use two monitoring tools at the same time. Right now integration part of shinken look great as I'm unable to integrate this with Graphite, Pagerduty, Graffana and thruk like tools easily but in Consul this is only achievable if I use Atlas (Paid Version).

That's confusing me to making decision, for which tool i should go that can easily work with Puppet or ansible and can be scale over time.