[Xymon] Xymon + graphite

[John Thurston]

On 12/10/2015 7:02 AM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
>
> Alternatively, sending the metric data off entirely to a different
> package, which can reinject an alert into xymon if/when it notices a
> trend, is an easily-approachable option using the RRD --processor option,
> which can fork your metric feed off to whatever you like (OpenTSDB,
> graphite, splunk, etc...). The re-posting of alerts back into xymon can be
> done with that package's notification tool set and some scripting of xymon
> messages.

This seems like the "Xymonish" way to do this.

Attempting to embed cross-host, historic-metric, and trending analysis 
seems to stray pretty far from the Big Brother/Xymon tradition. "Give me 
a red/yellow/green message and I'll put it a web page and send an email 
to whomever you have specified." (See my sig-line)

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