Author: Jan Henkins Date: To: users Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Wanted: volunteers to play with new graphing setup
Hello Andy,
Please sign me up!
Cheers,
Jan Henkins
On 7 October 2019 12:59:33 BST, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote: >Hi,
>
>I've been working towards replacing our aging and creaky Cacti¹
>installation with something more modern, based on Prometheus and
>Grafana.
>
>I think it's nearing the stage of being able to take over from Cacti
>now, so I would like some volunteers to have a go at using it, give
>feedback etc.
>
>If you would be willing to do so, please drop me an email off-list
>and I'll enable you to log in to it (with your usual BitFolk
>credentials). Cacti will continue running in the meantime so there
>is nothing to lose, only some time spent using it.
>
>The goal here is not to offer a full hosted Grafana/Prometheus
>setup, as that would be rather complicated and there are companies
>that already do that as their entire paid service offering. I'm just
>trying to replace the functionality of our Cacti, which for
>customers basically amounts only to bandwidth and CPU graphs.
>
>We can do a little better than this — in particular, block device
>graphs have been pretty easy to add — but that's the sort of scope I
>am looking at for right now.
>
>Once we're happy with it, Cacti is going to stop gathering any
>further measurements.
>
>After you've had a play for a bit, feedback to this thread is
>welcome, or to me personally if you'd rather.
>
>Cheers,
>Andy
>
>¹ https://tools.bitfolk.com/cacti/
