Alert Management & Automation Tool
by Cyrus Dasadia
Who is Cyrus?
● Sysadmin / Part time programmer for over 14+ yrs.● Monty Python fan.● Sr. Tech Lead at InMobi.
Twitter: @ExtremeUnixEmail: [email protected]
Why the long face ?
● You installed the best monitoring application.
● You have awesome monitoring scripts.
● You purchased a monitoring service.
● You have the best NOC/Incident management team.
but..
When things go bad, there is chaos!
Even the best teams succumb to it.
cthuluhu image: http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2013/10/10/god-digs-ambiguity
So, what leads to this problem?
● As servers and teams grow, there are even more alerts to manage.
● Alerts are not constantly tuned for changing thresholds.
● Monitoring tools generate false positive events.
● Teams don't follow discipline to ack alerts during releases/outages.
What can help manage this chaos?
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What can really help ?
A tool that:
● Lets me easily define events.
● Lets me create actions on such events.
● Easily integrates with 3rd party applications.
CitoEngine (psi-tow enn-gin)
CitoEngine
● Define events.
● Send alerts against these events.
● System creates unique incidents for each alert
How CitoEngine Works:
Simply define an event
How CitoEngine Works:
Create an action against that event
How CitoEngine Works: Plugin ServerDefine your plugins
How CitoEngine Works: Plugin ServerRestrict plugins to user bound API Keys
Add the plugin server to the engine:
Voila!
How do I send events?
JSON:
That’s it, nothing else!
CitoEngine: Dashboards
Detailed dashboard of all incidents.
CitoEngine: Dashboards
Current Active/Acknowledged incidents
Reports!
Who would need it?
Anyone who wants to manage alerts efficiently without all the noise.
Ideal for NOC, DevOps and Ops teams
CitoEngine Stack
Server: Django + TwistedMessage queue: SQS, RabbitMQUI: JQuery + BootstrapDatabase: MySQL (MariaDB/PgSQL*)License: Apache 2.0
Completely Open Source!
* Currently being tested
Thank You!
CitoEngine wants you!
http://citoengine.org
[Need contributors for testing, documentation, bug reports, etc.]
