Migrate from Splunk to Prometheus

[alexm...@gmail.com]

Hi Everybody,

Currently, I am using Splunk to monitoring several machines with official apps: servers, hypervisors, storage machines (netapp, quantum), etc through forwarder, syslog and snmp. I would want to know if is possible monitoring these machines with Prometheus and how do it. Is it necessary developing the apps before? Is there any plugin for this? Is there any repository with the code?

Thanks a lot. Best Regards.

[Brian Brazil]

On 6 February 2017 at 12:12, <alexm...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Everybody,

Currently, I am using Splunk to monitoring several machines with official apps: servers, hypervisors, storage machines (netapp, quantum), etc through forwarder, syslog and snmp.

Splunk is a log-based system, whereas Prometheus is metrics based, so there's a different focus and approach. You generally need both a logging and metrics system. See http://thenewstack.io/classes-container-monitoring/

For example there's no real notion of a forwarder or dealing with syslog in Prometheus (though there's way to do it as a last rest).

 

I would want to know if is possible monitoring these machines with Prometheus and how do it.

That's all possible.

 

Is it necessary developing the apps before? Is there any plugin for this? Is there any repository with the code?

The best way to use Prometheus is to use our client libraries inside your applications. For things like SNMP, you'd use the snmp_exporter.

We'll need more detail to provide links to relevant code.

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Brian Brazil

www.robustperception.io

[alexm...@gmail.com]

Hi Brian,

Thanks a lot for your answer! It is everything I needed to know!

Best Regards.