drove 0.1

Monitoring and statistical analysis system for a drove of systems

# drove

drove is a modern monitoring tool which support alerting (with escalation), auto-register nodes, statistics gathering and much more… in a few lines of python code.

## Installation

The stable releases of drove will be uploaded to [PyPi](https://pypi.python.org/pypi), so you can install and upgrade versions using [pip](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip):

pip install drove

You can use unstable versions at your risk using pip as well:

pip install -e git://github.com/ajdiaz/drove

By the way: drove works better with python3, but 2.7 is also supported.

## Usage

You need to configure drove to enable the features that you like to use. In fact drove act as a producer-consumer daemon, which means that there are read _plugins_ and write _plugins_.

• A reader read a metric or an event from somewhere and report it to drove (in a internal cache).

• A consumer write a metric (taken from the internal cache) in somewhere.

Some _plugins_ can act as reader and writer at the same time.

By default drove start with a very basic readers configured.

To start the daemon just type:

drove -c myconfig.conf

You can avoid to daemonize with –no-daemon option in the command line.

## Development

drove is under heavy development. If you want to contribute, please us the usual github worflow:

1. Clone the repo

2. Hack!

3. Make a pull-request

4. Merged!

If you don’t have programming skills, just open a [issue](https://github.com/ajdiaz/drove/issues) in the project.