This wiki will hold the minutes of discussion topics from the Barometer Weekly Call
Discussion topics for the “ideal” monitoring agent
- Polling vs Event capture for the monitoring agent
- Platform independent monitor agent
- Network Interfaces
- Kernel events
- VM / Container monitoring
- Common bus for Events / Telemetry / Config
- Common Object model
- Agent configuration
- Performance
- <<50ms and other timing requirements
Decisions
Polling vs Event capture for the monitoring agent <Feb 07 2017>
The scope of polling being discussed is that of the monitoring agent itself (on the node that’s being observed).
Both should be supported – it depends on the subsystem you are monitoring, default would be to leverage event based systems where they exist, but polling should be supported as a configuration option.