Last modified: 2014-08-27 03:30:51 UTC
There has been some interest to use Ganglia for statistics for bots & Co. instead of other libraries or off-site services. Obviously, just pointing users to how to do it could cause a lot of chagrin, with either the statistics not being grouped under a reasonable host, interfering with system statistics or just flooding the network. Instead of trying to sandbox it so that no user can cause havoc or trying to come up with eternal technical rules (x values per service group per second, etc.), I propose that we define something more basic, but flexible: - Ganglia can be used *only* for tools's statistics with admin's approval. Violators will be LARTed. Approval is handled by admins at benevolent will. - Admins have a public wikipage where all approved tools, the corresponding Ganglia groups, the values they send and the rate at which they send them are kept. Tools must adhere to this plan, changes are only made by admin. - Statistics for tools are gathered under a pseudo host ("tools-statistics"?) with one group per tool.
sounds pretty hard to implement to me :>
This may become possible thanks to labmon1001; handing off to Yuvi.
Note that this *was* (and is) technically possible at http://ganglia.wmflabs.org/ when that was online; I think StatsD has no notion of authentication (yet). This bug is just about the "political" side of it.
