Orbitz Open Sources Monitoring Tools ERMA and Graphite

I saw this recent article about some new tools from Orbitz: InfoQ: Orbitz Open Sources Monitoring Tools ERMA and Graphite

Graphite looks particularly interesting as it has features overcoming some of the things I don't like about RRDtool:

Graphite is a Python web application that has been developed to provide scalable storage and visualization for numeric time-series data. It receives the output from the CEP engine, which consists of data aggregated for over 70,000 metrics. A Graphite portlet was developed in order to integrate with a monitoring portal, which is based on JBoss Portal framework. The portal presents tabular and graphical views of vital system statistics and RSS feeds for alarms. Users can subscribe to feeds for particular alarm severities and/or affected applications. The Graphite web application itself is used to display visual graphs of monitoring statistics generated using RESTful URLs. Graphite data can be presented as line graphs, pie charts or raw CSV data. Graphite also provides a web-based command line interface, which power users can use to very quickly and easily create and share dashboards containing collections of related graphs.

I'll hopefully find some time to try this out

Comments

[Timur Izhbulatov]

So, have you tried Graphite yet?

[charlie]

No! Although I would still like to, I need a couple more linux servers....