Not Nagios

Pizza, Beer, and Mingle

"Scalable Performance Monitoring of Networks, Servers and Applications Using Standard Metrics"
Peter Phaal - sFlow standard co-author, sFlow.org

"Monitoring with Ganglia"
Vladimir Vuksan - Ganglia Developer

"Enterprise Scalable Realtime Graphing with Graphite"
Dave Mangot - Sr. Systems Engineer, Tagged Inc.

"Not Nagios, Beyond Nagios with Datadog"
Alexis Le-Quoc - Co-founder - Datadog ( http://datadoghq.com )

Last year we had an evening dedicated to Monitoring. We had some great talks, but it was a lot of Nagios. I've had requests to hear about other monitoring systems like Cacti, Ganglia, Munin, OpenNMS, Zenoss, Zabbix, ..... There are also starting to be some hosted monitoring services, such as MyCloudWatcher and CloudKick.

For this topic, I know I'm really interested in window shopping: we don't need to hear about anything particularly clever you might or might not be doing (although that is certainly welcome too!). It's more about seeing what else is out there, and what it can do, so that when I'm choosing tools for new projects, I have an idea what I should look at further.

Therefore, I think it'd be great to have a larger number of shorter talks (10-15 minutes?) for this evening, so we can all see what's available. If you use one of these systems (or others I haven't mentioned), tell us: what does it do for you? What does it look like? Is it hard to set up and use? Why do you like it compared to the alternatives?

We know this is the last night of Velocity 2011, and that the last session ends at 6:05PM. In order to accomodate folks coming from Velocity, we'll extend the pizza/beer/mingling session at the beginning and start a bit late to allow time to get to the event. (Note that the Yahoo! campus is less than 10 minutes drive from the Santa Clara Hyatt (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=5101+Great+American+Parkway,+Santa+Clara,+CA+95054+(Hyatt)&daddr=701+1st+Avenue,+Sunnyvale,+CA&hl=en&geocode=FbDBOgIdzce6-CFysWFW4j0UQQ%3BFQDwOgIdogq6-ClrZjMTl7ePgDFVBpSvn6dneA&mra=ls&sll=37.405074,-121.976738&sspn=0.210268,0.219383&ie=UTF8&ll=37.410937,-122.001114&spn=0.052563,0.054846&z=14)).

If you can put together a talk on this, please contact Chris Westin so I can get you on the agenda.