[rdo-list] Overlap between dashboards/monitoring and future status aggregation tool

[David Moreau Simard]

Worth mentioning that both uchiwa.monitoring.rdoproject.org and
status.rdoproject.org are not HTTPS (yet).

Because of this, if you've ever visited https://trunk.rdoproject.org,
trunk.rdoproject.org provides a HSTS [1] configuration (persistent SSL
configuration for the rdoproject.org domain), your browser will
redirect status.rdo and uchiwa.monitoring.rdo to https and this will
not work.
You can either clear your HSTS configuration for rdoproject.org in
your browser or use another browser to look at the interfaces for the
time being.

I've opened an issue to make the trunk.rdoproject.org HSTS config
scoped correctly [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
[2]: https://github.com/rdo-infra/puppet-dlrn/issues/40

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO

dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]


On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 8:57 AM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We've discussed several times that we need a public place to
> centralize relevant status information for the community in an
> user-friendly way.
>
> The status information we have right now are available either from the
> dashboard [1] or the monitoring [2].
> Ultimately, the dashboard is monitoring things that is either already
> monitored by our Sensu instance or could be.
>
> I'm working on status.rdoproject.org [3] right now (not yet fed with live data).
> The software for it, Cachet [4], is an open source version of statuspage.io.
> It's meant to be driven automatically through it's API but there is
> also an administrative interface to manually create/edit/resolve
> events if need be.
>
> So, for example, if Sensu detects a problem, it coud create an event
> on status.rdoproject -- and resolve it when it's resolved.
> The existing scripts for dashboards could be adapted to work with
> status.rdoproject.
> We could even have jenkins jobs post updates on status.rdoproject if we wanted.
> It also supports displaying basic metrics, like shown in the demo [5].
>
> There will clearly be an overlap between status.rdo and
> dashboards.rdo. Are we okay with this ?
> I'm not looking to create yet another standard to rule them all (cue
> XKCD) but to use the right tool for the right job.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> [1]: https://dashboards.rdoproject.org/rdo-dev
> [2]: http://uchiwa.monitoring.rdoproject.org/ (creds: rdo/rdo)
> [3]: http://status.rdoproject.org/
> [4]: https://cachethq.io/
> [5]: https://demo.cachethq.io/
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]