monitoring software with api/service to pull data

[Jim Tarvid]

I like Aljoša suggestion of a RESTful interface. Nothing could be easier on
the client side. On the server side, data often does not fit an n-tuple
schema and MySQL is a hammer for which every collection of data looks like a
nail.

Jim

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Benoit des Ligneris <
benoit.des.ligneris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Well, if you have already nagios, I suggest you install NDOUtils and NDO2DB
> :
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/ndoutils/NDOUtils.pdf
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/ndoutils/NDOUtils_DB_Model.pdf
>
> Then the data will be in a nice SQL database and you can easily build
> complex query
> with SQL.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Aljoša Mohorović <
> aljosa.mohorovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> i'm looking for software that provides things like nagios (my current
>> option) but provides an API or some kind of service (rest, soap, ...)
>> which would enable me to retrieve data using some programming language
>> (preferably python).
>> few examples:
>> - "get data for all network traffic via http"
>> - "get data for all network traffic via http that was requested for
>> domain example.com"
>> - "get data for all network traffic via http that was requested for
>> domain example.com in time frame 1/1/2008 - 1/2/2008"
>>
>> what i'm looking for is some software that does system monitoring and
>> alerting stuff but also provides high level api/service to retrieve
>> data useful for creating reports.
>> any ideas? or should i stick with nagios and use nagios options?
>>
>> Aljosa Mohorovic
>>
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