aammonit

Stub of a simple python monitoring system

Requirements

• Python
• All dependencies in requirements.txt

Installation

1. pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Copy config.py from config.py.example and edit for your usage
3. Run ./aammonit.py
4. Enjoy!

Ideas/Vision

Globally

• The concept is supposed to extend to any monitorable thing:

  • notify if price of bitcoin exceeds X
  • notify if outside temperature drops below X
  • notify if html page's DOM element changed
  • etc.

• Create an interface class, that can control aammonit as a whole (dynamically add notifiers, services, stop, start, etc)

  • Subclasses of this can be a terminal controller, IRC/XMPP controller (but then have to re-use the notifier as a controller, so need a way to communicate).
  • Where/how is the configuration stored? sqlite? json overwrite on each config change/save? etc.

• Maybe introduce metering, save results of each check, make them available to access in the interfaces

  • i.e. IRC/XMPP interface:

  <user> .view service_check_1  
  <aammonit> Last metrics for service_check_1: 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.15    
  

  • Web interface would display graphs, etc.

Monitors

• Every monitor should be optionally threaded, with an individual interval of checking, for high importance service checks
• Add "retries" for checks until declared down
• Detect self-connectivity issues before saying that everything is down

ETC

• Due to the stub nature of this project, there are a lot of things to cover that aren't covered here.

Author

Andrei Marcu, http://andreim.net/