Alignak REST backend This module is an Alignak REST backend
Project description
Python Eve REST Backend for Alignak monitoring framework
Short description
This package is an Alignak Backend.
It is used to:
manage monitoring configuration (hosts, services, contacts, timeperiods…)
end user (WebUI, alignak-backend-cli, python/php client, curl command line,…) can get, add, edit monitoring configurations elements inner templating system to easily create new hosts, services, users, … Alignak gets this configuration when its arbiter module starts
manage retention
Alignak saves and loads retention information for checks/hosts/services from the backend
manage the monitoring live state
Alignak add/update states for hosts and services end user (webui, command line…) can get these information
manage the metrics from the checks performance data
Alignak backend automatically send metrics to Graphite / InfluxDB timeseries databases Alignak backend automatically creates Grafana panels for hosts / services metrics
Installation
From PyPI
To install the package from PyPI:
sudo pip install alignak-backend
From source files
To install the package from the source files:
git clone https://github.com/Alignak-monitoring-contrib/alignak-backend cd alignak-backend sudo pip install .
Documentation
The Alignak backend documentation is available on Read the docs or in the /docs folder of this repository.
To build the doc:
cd docs python models_to_rst.py make clear make html
Release strategy
Alignak backend and its satellites (backend client, and backend import tools) must all have the same features level. As of it, take care to install the same minor version on your system to ensure compatibility between all the packages. Use 0.4.x version of Backend import and Backend client with a 0.4.x version of the Backend.
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