What's it all about Whatever services you are running, there always a need for monitoring. You want to know that you service is down before you customers or bosses fire you :) There are a lot of open source software and hosted services for that, but services are usually featureless or costly (or both) and open source solutions are often featureless and outdated as well. But some of them are different. For some reason Shinken doesn't get much of attention these days and I intend to fix it somehow. For those of you who don't know it yet, Shinken is monitoring software not very unlike Nagios (and backward-compatible with it in most cases). But it's totally re-written with Python and have a lot of ready to use 'modules' and 'configuration packs'. Pros Shinken's core was divided into several separated services: arbiter, scheduler, broker, poller, etc. connected over network. It gives both better scalability and better availability. You can...
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