CloudMon is a monitoring orchestrator for clouds. Cloudmon integrates directly an IaaS plataform (currently works with Apache CloudStack and AWS EC2) with a monitoring plataform (Zabbix).
On the fly, CloudMon will:
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create, delete or change status of zabbix hosts (each host corresponds to an IaaS VM) and even update its configurations (templates, hostgroups, macros...) replicating the changes (created/removed/stopped) ocurred within the VMs.
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Read VMs resource tags and take different actions based on its values.
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Associate zabbix hosts to predefined templates or hostgroups.
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Simultaneously monitor multiple Cloud regions (different or same IaaS).
CloudMon works as a Python Daemon that retrieves IaaS data through CloudStack API, AWS EC2 API and/or its event queues, processing that data and taking the proper action in Zabbix through the Zabbix API.
CloudMon requires a Zabbix Agent installed to ensure proper functionality.
CloudMon has been tested and used in CentOS environments and Python 2.7.
- Read the documentation
- Recommended to create a python virtualenv for CloudMon.
- Install via
pip install cloudmon. - Edit your
cloudmon.conffile for your needs. See Configuration. - Create and edit one or more managers.
- Edit /etc/init.d/cloudmon if needed.
- Run CloudMon with:
cloudmonor/etc/init.d/cloudmon start | stop | restart. See Usage.
CloudMon has been successfully used by Globo.com to monitor its Cloud Infrastructure.