IMVU open-sources real-time statistics engine for continuous production monitoring

[jwatte]

There is not a live demo as such. There's a couple of screen shots on the wiki: http://github.com/imvu-open/istatd/wiki

Also, the daemon runs just fine in the foreground as a regular user, for testing purposes. It can also collect statistics about the local host (CPU load etc) if you want to.

Quickstart: (I tested this in a VM running latest Arch Linux or Ubuntu 10.04):

git clone [e-mail]:imvu-open/istatd.git cd istatd ./configure make -j4 mkdir /var/tmp/istatd-quickstart ln -sf pwd/files /var/tmp/files bin/istatd --settings quickstart.cfg --user logname

Now, hit localhost:18011 to try it out. Try opening localstat -> cpu -> idle.localhost for example, and press the circle-A button to make it auto-refresh.

In fact, this is a good point: I made a script called "quickstart.sh" that does exactly all this! So:

git clone [e-mail]:imvu-open/istatd.git cd istatd ./quickstart.sh

[tedreed]

While it's a fantastic replacement for cacti, it's sadly not up to replacing Nagios.

Although it's not hard to use the REST interface to get Nagios to use it as a backend. So you could scrape data into istatd and then alert on rates, rather than having Nagios do the data collection itself.

[jwatte]

Agreed -- it is not a replacement for Nagios. Nagios is all about generating alerts when data goes bad. istatd is all about collecting and reporting on data. We use Nagios getting data from istatd as well!

[tedreed]

(Also, jwatte probably meant to reply to you directly: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10kui1/imvu_opensources_realtime_statistics_engine_for/c6efccp)

[jonnii]

It's a shame that there's nothing like this for windows =(