Cloudprober
Cloudprober is a monitoring software that makes it super-easy to monitor
availability and performance of various components of your system. Cloudprober
employs the "active" monitoring model. It runs probes against (or on) your
components to verify that they are working as expected. For example, it can run
a probe to verify that your frontends can reach your backends. Similarly it can
run a probe to verify that your in-Cloud VMs can actually reach your on-premise
systems. This kind of monitoring makes it possible to monitor your systems'
interfaces regardless of the implementation and helps you quickly pin down
what's broken in your system.
Features
- Integration with open source monitoring stack of
Prometheus and Grafana.
Cloudprober exports probe results as counter based metrics that work well
with Prometheus and Grafana. - Automated target discovery for Cloud targets. GCP is supported
out-of-the-box; other Cloud providers can be added easily. - Integration with StackDriver. If
configured, Cloudprober exports probe results to StackDriver as custom
metrics. - Built-in implementations for the most common probe types: PING, HTTP, UDP,
DNS. - Arbitrary, complex probes can be run through the external probe type. For
example, you could write a simple script to insert and delete a row in your
database, and execute this script through the 'EXTERNAL' probe type. - Fast and efficient ping prober implementation that allows probing thousands
of hosts with minimal resources. - Strong focus on ease of deployment. Cloudprober is written entirely in Go
and compiles into a static binary. It can be easily deployed through docker
containers. Thanks to the automated target discovery, there is usually no
need to re-deploy or re-configure cloudprober in response to the most of the
changes. - Go templates based config file with substitutions for standard variables
like project, zone, instance names etc allows for using same config file
across the fleet. - Low footprint. Cloudprober docker image is small, containing just the
statically compiled binary and it takes very little CPU and RAM to run even
a large number of probes. - Extensible architecture. Cloudprober can be easily extended along most of
the dimensions. Adding support for other Cloud targets, monitoring systems
(e.g. Graphite, Amazon Cloudwatch) and even a new probe type, is
straight-forward and fairly easy.
Visit cloudprober.org to
get started with Cloudprober.
We'd love to hear your feedback. If you're using Cloudprober, would you please
mind sharing how you use it by adding a comment to the issue #123. It will be a great help in
planning Cloudprober's future progression.
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