Replacement for Nagios

[Thomas Güttler]

Hi,

we want to switch our simple server monitoring tool (not nagios, but something like this).

Since we develop with Python and Django, sentry looks like it could be a part of our new solution.

AFAIK sentry has no scheduler, which starts check scripts, but that can be solved.

Is there anybody who things sentry can be used for transporting and aggregating messages
for monitoring servers?

What do you think?

Does someone already integrate server monitoring (e.g. disk-full, CPU-load to high, postgres locks, ...) into sentry?

  Thomas Güttler

[David Cramer]

While Sentry is flexible, it's not designed to replace general solutions like nagios. You will find that 90% of what you'd need does not exist in Sentry, or it works in a way which is not standard. 

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[Thomas Güttler]

I looked at the documentation of sentry (have not installed it). In my opinion, it uses all the parts which a modern nagios replacement should have: task-queue (celery, rabbit-mq), ...

I like to use structured logging in the future. And here sentry seems to be a good choice

The missing part is just a sheduler which calls check scripts and then sends the result like a structured logging information. We already have plenty of
check-scripts. It would be easy to return their output into structured logging events.

Since our current server monitoring solution is quite simple, using sentry could be a solution for us. If we go this way, I will write here again.

Regards, Thomas Güttler

[David Cramer]

You will be sorely disappointed when you realize that the notifications do not behave that you expect, and we have no plans to make it fit this use case.

[jsm...@hubspot.com]

Take a look at Sensu (https://github.com/sensu). Might be what you are looking for...