monitoring tools

[coyotemarin]

Once we have some more experience at Yelp with exactly what tools we need to monitor doloop, we should add corresponding binaries to doloop. Examples:

• utility to call stats() on a table
• utility to check() on particular IDs
• a nagios plugin to make sure that IDs aren't delayed for too long
• a web dashboard

We'll need some way to read in database credentials. Probably the best way is a my.cnf file, read with MySQLdb.connect(read_default_file=...).

We should put this on the back burner for a while to avoid building useless utilities. Some or all of these might make more sense as separate projects.

[coyotemarin]

Yeah, going to start this out as a separate project with an obvious name like doloop-nagios-monitor.

[coyotemarin]

I've written one for Yelp; shouldn't be much work to make it standalone once we do some real-world testing.

[coyotemarin]

Ugh, looks like people still use Nagios?!?!