System check framework suiteable for monitoring?

[guettli]

I guess a lot of people here are not only developers, they are operators, too.

I mean they need to care for a production system and ensure it is up and healthy.

I am unsure if the System Check Framework[1] inside Django is suited to do
monitoring checks.

With "monitoring checks" I mean these simple but valuable scripts
which exit 0=OK, 1=FAIL, 2=ERR, 3=UNKNOWN (like nagios)

Since I am mainly doing software development and only from time to time
I need to write or extend a monitoring check of our production environment,
I prefer to code in my code base which uses django.

Updates in the monitoring area feel complicated (different git repos, different deployment, ....)

According to the docs[1] the System Check Framework some checks are executed during start up.

But there are no docs about periodical running checks on production servers.

How do you handle this?

Do you use django checks for monitoring?

Or is this a bad idea?

If you use django checks for monitoring, how do you call them? The django
checks framework is only a way to provide the checks. It has no information about
how often the checks should get executed.

Regards,
  Thomas





[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/checks/

[Jani Tiainen]

Hi,

Checks framework is mainly built to prevent system starting management commands in case of invalid state of the system. It's not meant for health monitoring.

There exists several ways to run health checks - we use quite simple setup with new relic.

There also exists django-health-checks that can provide maybe better set of health checking and would be something that you're looking for.

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[guettli]

Am Montag, 27. März 2017 11:31:22 UTC+2 schrieb Jani Tiainen:

Hi,

Checks framework is mainly built to prevent system starting management commands in case of invalid state of the system. It's not meant for health monitoring.

There exists several ways to run health checks - we use quite simple setup with new relic.

How does this setup within new relic work?

 

There also exists django-health-checks that can provide maybe better set of health checking and would be something that you're looking for.

Thank you for this hint.

 

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