cloudmon 0.3.0

Monitoring Orchestrator for Clouds

# CloudMon

CloudMon is a monitoring orchestrator for clouds. Cloudmon integrates directly an IaaS plataform (currently works with Apache CloudStack and AWS EC2) with a monitoring plataform (Zabbix).

On the fly, CloudMon will:

• create, delete or change status of zabbix hosts (each host corresponds to an IaaS VM) and even update its configurations (templates, hostgroups, macros…) replicating the changes (created/removed/stopped) ocurred within the VMs.

• Read VMs [resource tags](Tags.md) and take different actions based on its values.

• Associate zabbix hosts to predefined templates or hostgroups.

• Simultaneously monitor multiple Cloud regions (different or same IaaS).

CloudMon works as a Python Daemon that retrieves IaaS data through CloudStack API, AWS EC2 API and/or its event queues, processing that data and taking the proper action in Zabbix through the Zabbix API.

CloudMon requires a Zabbix Agent installed to ensure proper functionality.

CloudMon has been tested and used in CentOS environments and Python 2.7.

## Getting Started

• Read the [documentation](https://cloudmon.readthedocs.io)

• Recommended to create a python virtualenv for CloudMon.

• Install via pip install cloudmon.

• Edit your cloudmon.conf file for your needs. See [Configuration](Configuration.md).

• Create and edit one or more [managers](Managers.md).

• Edit /etc/init.d/cloudmon if needed.

• Run CloudMon with: cloudmon or /etc/init.d/cloudmon start | stop | restart. See [Usage](Usage.md).

## Success Stories

CloudMon has been successfully used by Globo.com to monitor its Cloud Infrastructure.

# Changelog All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/), and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).