Puppet users - Oct 2008 - *nix stats + RRDtool + AJAX = YaketyStats

Thanks to Luke for giving us permission to send our super-rad press
release to his list!

Since our system was written with sysadmins in mind we thought you
Puppeteers might like to know about it.

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Athens, GA (Oct. 14, 2008)

Announcing the WORLD-WIDE release of YaketyStats, a new tool for
gathering and graphing statistics about your UNIX/Linux systems.

It has an intuitive, AJAX-powered web interface for graphing
data. Graphs are built on the fly, can contain stats from multiple
systems and include "Google Maps"-like dragging.

YaketyStats is easy to install, maintain, and extend and is free Open
Source software licensed under the GPLv2. YaketyStats supports Firefox
and is built on Perl, PHP, and RRDtool.

If you''re tired of having to micro-manage your existing stats system
or
you don''t have one, you should check out the YaketyStats website and
demo video at yaketystats.org

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Interesting, thanks. How does it scale compared to say Munin?

On 15/10/2008, at 8:42 AM, Mark Plaksin <happymcplaksin@gmail.com>  
wrote:
>
> Thanks to Luke for giving us permission to send our super-rad press
> release to his list!
>
> Since our system was written with sysadmins in mind we thought you
> Puppeteers might like to know about it.
>
> --- 
> --- 
> --- 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Athens, GA (Oct. 14, 2008)
>
> Announcing the WORLD-WIDE release of YaketyStats, a new tool for
> gathering and graphing statistics about your UNIX/Linux systems.
>
> It has an intuitive, AJAX-powered web interface for graphing
> data. Graphs are built on the fly, can contain stats from multiple
> systems and include "Google Maps"-like dragging.
>
> YaketyStats is easy to install, maintain, and extend and is free Open
> Source software licensed under the GPLv2. YaketyStats supports Firefox
> and is built on Perl, PHP, and RRDtool.
>
> If you''re tired of having to micro-manage your existing stats
system
> or
> you don''t have one, you should check out the YaketyStats website
and
> demo video at yaketystats.org
>
> >
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On Oct 14, 5:49 pm, Aj <a...@junglist.gen.nz>
wrote:
> Interesting, thanks. How does it scale compared to say Munin?
We haven''t run Munin so I''m not sure; maybe you can tell us
how it
compares? :)  We do have this sizing page which describes our setup:
http://yaketystats.org/redmine/wiki/yaketystats/Sizing

Short story:  The client requires very little, just Perl and it
doesn''t use
many resources.  If you have a lot of clients the server needs fast
disks
and RAM helps.  Graphs are only generated on demand so drawing graphs
requires very little of the server.

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AH, what a wonderful tool.
I am interested in Jart:
As I understand it, it uses the RRDs that are created by yaketystats?
If so, it should be possible to rewrite it such that it might be able  
to use already-existing munin-rrds?

I did not look into the code of Jart, could you give me some starting  
points where a rewrite should start?

our (and i would say this is the general layout) munin-directory  
layout is:

<domain>/<hostname>-<plugin>-<data>.rrd

this looks quite like your format described here:
http://yaketystats.org/redmine/wiki/yaketystats/Collector_and_Stuffer_overview#6

so instead of:
jojo.example.com/load/1-minute.rrd
Munin would have:
jojo.example.com-<pluginname: load in this example>-load1-g.rrd
Some minor changes should do (at least the rrd-file finding part)

The DS in munin are known by the name of "42" instead of
"yabba"
And then of course we have 4 RRAs with "daily", "weekly"
"monthly" and
"year". All of those have MIN/MAX and AVG CFs

I guess that the changes to the code should be fairly straight forward.
If you could point me to the files where I could start, I would give  
it a try.
Why? We have a pretty large munin-infrastructure with many self- 
written plugins as well as all the puppet-configuration magic.
It would take us some time to convert to yaketystats.
Jart is the thing that was really missing in our setup.

Thanks for the cool tools.
Have a nice day,
udo.

On 15.10.2008, at 14:18, Mark Plaksin wrote:
>
> On Oct 14, 5:49 pm, Aj <a...@junglist.gen.nz> wrote:
>> Interesting, thanks. How does it scale compared to say Munin?
>
> We haven''t run Munin so I''m not sure; maybe you can tell
us how it
> compares? :)  We do have this sizing page which describes our setup:
> http://yaketystats.org/redmine/wiki/yaketystats/Sizing
>
> Short story:  The client requires very little, just Perl and it
> doesn''t use
> many resources.  If you have a lot of clients the server needs fast
> disks
> and RAM helps.  Graphs are only generated on demand so drawing graphs
> requires very little of the server.
>
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:21 PM, udo waechter
<udo.waechter@uni-osnabrueck.de> wrote:
> AH, what a wonderful tool.
> I am interested in Jart:
> As I understand it, it uses the RRDs that are created by yaketystats?
> If so, it should be possible to rewrite it such that it might be able to
use
> already-existing munin-rrds?
>
> I did not look into the code of Jart, could you give me some starting
points
> where a rewrite should start?
Hi Udo,

Luke was kind enough to let us send an announcement to his list, but
if you wouldn''t mind please take this discussion to they yaketystats
lists or #yaketystats on freenode.

I hope you don''t rewrite Jart, but instead take advantage of the fact
that it''s FOSS and help us to make it better.

Thanks!
-Sam (Jart author)
>
> our (and i would say this is the general layout) munin-directory layout is:
>
> <domain>/<hostname>-<plugin>-<data>.rrd
>
> this looks quite like your format described here:
>
http://yaketystats.org/redmine/wiki/yaketystats/Collector_and_Stuffer_overview#6
>
> so instead of:
> jojo.example.com/load/1-minute.rrd
> Munin would have:
> jojo.example.com-<pluginname: load in this example>-load1-g.rrd
> Some minor changes should do (at least the rrd-file finding part)
>
> The DS in munin are known by the name of "42" instead of
"yabba"
> And then of course we have 4 RRAs with "daily",
"weekly" "monthly" and
> "year". All of those have MIN/MAX and AVG CFs
>
> I guess that the changes to the code should be fairly straight forward.
> If you could point me to the files where I could start, I would give it a
> try.
> Why? We have a pretty large munin-infrastructure with many self-written
> plugins as well as all the puppet-configuration magic.
> It would take us some time to convert to yaketystats.
> Jart is the thing that was really missing in our setup.
>
> Thanks for the cool tools.
> Have a nice day,
> udo.
>
> On 15.10.2008, at 14:18, Mark Plaksin wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 14, 5:49 pm, Aj <a...@junglist.gen.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting, thanks. How does it scale compared to say Munin?
>>
>> We haven''t run Munin so I''m not sure; maybe you can
tell us how it
>> compares? :)  We do have this sizing page which describes our setup:
>> http://yaketystats.org/redmine/wiki/yaketystats/Sizing
>>
>> Short story:  The client requires very little, just Perl and it
>> doesn''t use
>> many resources.  If you have a lot of clients the server needs fast
>> disks
>> and RAM helps.  Graphs are only generated on demand so drawing graphs
>> requires very little of the server.
>>
>> >>
>>
>
> --
> :: udo waechter - root@zoide.net :: N 52º16''30.5" E
8º3''10.1"
> :: genuine input for your ears: http://auriculabovinari.de
> ::                          your eyes: http://ezag.zoide.net
> ::                          your brain: http://zoide.net
>
>
>
>
>
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