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I'm thinking about rewriting my monitoring tool (currently in #Fennel) in #Rust, and using rust_lisp for "configuration".

Mainly because I want to do a few things that are considerably easier from Rust - Lua libraries for some of the things I'd like are... not quite there.
#rust #fennel
Gergely Nagy 🐁
Gergely Nagy 🐁  
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Or maybe not. Maybe I'll just recompile the whole thing when the config changes, so it can be all Rust.

Or maybe I'll just leave it as-is, because it works, and the new stuff I want... I can live without that for a while longer.
Gergely Nagy 🐁
Gergely Nagy 🐁  
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(every 5 :minutes<br><br> (local r (s/collect [:http :get] "<a href="https://trunk.mad-scientist.club/health&quot" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trunk.mad-scientist.club/healt</span><span class="invisible">h&quot</span></a>;))<br><br> [{:service "healthcheck/trunk.mad-scientist.club"<br>   :state (if (= (?. r :body) "OK") :ok :fail)}])<br>


This is the kind of thing I currently do. Not sure how to translate this to Rust, it's neat this way. So I guess I'd need a Lisp-In-Rust. But that's a whole lot of data munging and whatnot.

What I'm saying is that I have enough stuff to play with, not gonna go down this rabbit hole again now.
grin
grin  
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well I started pouring metrics into #victoriametrics and trying to get anything comprehensible from #grafana. So far it looks extremely horrible, but not entirely hopeless. 😁
But at least vmalert+alertmanager can do fancy things from the data.
#victoriametrics #grafana
Gergely Nagy 🐁
Gergely Nagy 🐁  
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@grin That's way too fancy and complicated for my needs, both VictoriaMetrics and Grafana. :(
@grin
grin
grin  
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I 💓 fancy
😊
Gergely Nagy 🐁
Gergely Nagy 🐁  
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@grin To expand a bit further, all I need is a simple tool to collect some metrics periodically, push it to #riemann, which I can then query from a custom built dashboard.

No permanent metric storage, no cluster support, no scalability, no complicated filtering and data transformation, no compatibility with other systems, no ad-hoc queries, no alerts, no history. Nada. Just real-time stuff on a dashboard.

End result looks like the image attached, and this is pretty much it. I don't need more.
Screenshot of a monitoring dashboard with a bunch of pie charts (sorry, no pacman).
#riemann @grin
grin
grin  
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I see no problem with that. Apart from that it isn't FANCY! 😁
Gergely Nagy 🐁
Gergely Nagy 🐁  
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@grin Well, it is way fancier than my previous dashboard!
Screenshot of a potential-happiness dashboard.
@grin
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