On: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all ...

[AngryParsley]

Sounds like you set up the Cloudkick agent. If you really want to take advantage of the agent, try out some custom plugins (https://support.cloudkick.com/Agent/Custom_Plugins). We've cleaned up a few that we use internally and made them available at http://github.com/cloudkick/agent-plugins

[brandon → AngryParsley]

Indeed. I'm a Debian user, so it only took a minute to get the agent running which I appreciated a lot.

It seems like the only piece missing is graphing and alerting on bandwidth usage with the agent. Linode provides a nice set of hypervisor-level views of IO/CPU/Bandwidth but they're really only useful historically and from a billing perspective. On second thought, this sounds like an awesome way to get familiar with the plugin interface ;)

[AngryParsley → brandon]

There's a bandwidth check type. Click on the monitor tab, then click on new monitor, then select Bandwidth in the check type drop-down.

We don't support alerting on bandwidth usage yet, but that check will alert if the interface is down.

[elasticdog → AngryParsley]

Any way to build the agent from source? I run Arch Linux on my Linode and would love to try out the added functionality.

[AngryParsley → elasticdog]

The plan is to open source the agent in the near future.