Description

Monitrb is a m/monit event collector which works on Sinatra and mongodb

Goals

In the main goal is be able to set a collector for monit information but we want it be easy to use to collect any information that we send to the system.

Monit Collection

the M/monit portocol sen information over Server, Platform, Services, Events.

In the part of Services they have 8 types of events with diferent data which are:

• FILESYSTEM
• DIRECTORY
• FILE
• PROCESS
• HOST
• SYSTEM
• FIFO
• PROGRAM

Using a mongodb all the information is saved in the Service collection but with dynamic field for the especific data for each type

Collector

There's a internal collector in the url/collector you can send data with a POST request

{ 
	'server' : 'server_name',
  	'timestamp' : '2011-11-24 13:18:12 +0100',
  	'domain' : 'domain_name',
  	'type' : 'type_name',
	'dataset' : { 
					:data1 => 'data1', 
					:data2 => 'data2', 
					:data3 => 'data3' 
				}
}

Installation

You should have rvm installed.

	% git clone 
	% rvm create gemset monitrb
	% bundle install

• Change the password and username in the monitrb.rb
• Change the mongodb connection in db.rb

start the server

% rackup

In your monit script add:

	set mmonit http://user:password@server:port/monit/collector

Start your monit.