How to Create a Custom Prometheus Scrapeable Endpoint
Lear how to fetch metrics and create custom endpoints for a Prometheus ServiceMonitor to scrape using the prometheus_client library in Python.
Sensu: Finally the Nagios Replacement I Have Been Looking For!
Nagios, the popular open source system and networking monitoring service, is awesome. It gives you so much flexibility that expensive commercial software like Solarwinds and Spiceworks just doesn’t have. However after I moved my infrastructure to Chef, Nagios was constantly giving me issues. The configuration scheme just doesn’t fit well in an autonomous environment. In this blog article I review how I found a replacement for Nagios,