[erlang-questions] app for watching/monitoring other erlang nodes

[Garrett Smith]

Considering the time and risk of using off the shelf applications like
Nagios, I think rolling your own is a viable approach.

Other than Erlang itself, I don't know of a well designed, very light
Erlang monitoring framework. Probably because it's easy enough to
build something tailored to your needs directly in Erlang.

I'd just start doing what you're describing. I suspect that you'll
have a workable framework for monitoring in a few iterations.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu55@REDACTED> wrote:
> Yes, you're right, snmp matches the description, but it feels a bit too
> heavy for me. I will read about it, maybe it's not true. I would like to
> have the monitored nodes without any specific application running, just
> answering to some RPCs once in a while.
>
> Thanks!
> /Vlad
>
>
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/20/2012 01:23 PM, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Is any application available that will monitor the status of multiple
>>> erlang nodes and publish logs/reports? Kind of like a supervisor on the
>>> node level.
>>>
>>> It's not very difficult to write one, but if it already exists, it saves
>>> a lot of time.
>>>
>>> If it doesn't exist, did anyone else felt the need for one? In my case,
>>> the reason is that I have nodes that crash mysteriously and randomly and
>>> I couldn't retrieve any relevant information from them or the crashes.
>>> This would help track their health without adding much to their load.
>>
>>
>> Isn't that what the snmp application is for? Alongside a tool that
>> supports SNMP like Nagios.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Loďc Hoguin
>>
>> Erlang Cowboy
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>> http://ninenines.eu
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