Re: service uptime reports, mmonit?

[Martin Pala]

Hi Paul,

the servicegroup is set via Monit configuration only (not managed by M/Monit), 
using the “group <name>” option: 
http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#SERVICE-GROUPS.

Per-host service uptime is accessible in the Reports -> Uptime page when you 
click on the host entry in the table.

Regards,
Martin


> On 16 Nov 2014, at 01:21, Paul Theodoropoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I'm evaluating m/monit on the 30 day trial. Absolutely love it, works out of 
> the box, and I'm already well familiar with using monit for managing critical 
> services - m/monit ties it all together beautifully.
> 
> One thing I'm surprised is lacking is service uptime metrics. Since monit's 
> primary function is ensuring that services are running rather than hosts, I'd 
> have thought service uptime reports would be included. Part of my job 
> includes a monthly report to the board of our service availability, and as we 
> all know, host uptime isn't directly correlated to service uptime.
> 
> I was also somewhat surprised that only hostgroups were available and not 
> servicegroups. However, I noticed that the database does include a 
> servicegroup table, though unpopulated.
> 
> Are service uptime metrics and servicegroups in the works? I really want to 
> 'sell' m/monit to our CTO, but if service uptimes aren't available, I'll have 
> to keep nagios running in parallel to get those metrics, but that then makes 
> it harder to justify to the CTO purchasing m/monit (we're a small startup, 
> like almost everybody else in the world)...
> 
> Thanks for listening.
>