Alerting and monitoring system

Work in progress

Existing systems

Accessible from within the NYC Mesh network only:

• UISP:  https://10.70.76.21/nms/login (Statistics, alerts and monitoring of Ubiquiti wireless antennas)
  
• Grafana: http://10.70.90.82:3000
  • General link (Backbone)
  • Omni stats
    
  • LHG60
• Prometheus General:  http://10.70.90.82:9090
• Prometheus Omni only: http://10.70.90.142:9090
  • Omni port5 at 100Mbps
    
  • Omni memory used 75% or above 
• snmp-exporter: http://10.70.90.82:9116 (general)
• snmp-exporter: http://10.70.90.142:9090 (omni only)

• UNIFI: https://10.70.90.158:8443/   (old: https://10.70.95.63:8443) (Control and monitoring of Ubiquiti Unifi WiFi APs and switches)
  
• support report generator

Zabbix

• IP:http://10.70.73.58/
• Details: Runs on Quincy's server, connected to Beta Slack

Requirements

• Must:
  • alert Slack team when key infrasture goes offline within 5 minutes
• Should:
  • be easy to update for new equipment
  • be easy to configure to notify new volunteers
  • be easy to deploy
  • be reliable
  • be configurable though a version controlled config to enable easy updates
  • be editable by multiple volunteers

Questions

• Major
  • What key metrics should we alert based on?
• Minor
  • frequency? ~1 point/hour

Proposed software

• Zabbix
• Nagios
• Grafana
• [add your suggestion here]

Next Steps

Log

• prompted by this Slack discussion on Grand St. outage
• added Zabbix server during Hack night,