I got down to<p><pre><code> you should be able to install PCP from binary packages made available by the PCP development team on:
ftp.pcp.io
</code></pre>
and that threw up a red flag in my brain. Then I noticed that techblog.netflix.com doesn't redirect to https (and indeed can't serve https) (I use <a href="https://www.eff.org/HTTPS-EVERYWHERE" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/HTTPS-EVERYWHERE</a> and did not get content over https).<p>The directions _I_ saw for building from source looked pretty innocuous, but you might see a different set of directions if you're being MITMed. Observe an appropriate amount of caution.
It's enormously frustrating to me that the Windows platform is so far behind.<p>I've been researching for a rebuild of our ecommerce site with the idea of a modern microservice architecture. Team skillset and some other considerations dictate a .Net environment.<p>Netflix and other companies have created a really rich platform, between logging and monitoring technologies like this; message queueing; deployment; and so on. In the Windows environment there's precious little to compare to.<p>One bright spot is the news story also on HN today [1] about MS announcing Docker-related Hyper-V technology - but in the next version of Windows server.<p>It might be that to satisfy those .Net compatibility wishes, we just go to Mono and do everything else in Linux.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342369" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342369</a>
I just tried installing this on a test VPS. PCP went well, but whenever I tried to input a "hostname" in Vector's UI to get stats, it just kept telling me it couldn't connect and to check hostname, regardless of what I put in the box. PCP was available and of course ports open and whatnot. I'm not sure what the problem was, but that was a bit frustrating. It looks like a slick product otherwise, especially for a first version! Thanks for releasing projects like this! I'll be trying again in the future, for sure.
After using Stackdriver for the last 18 months, I would never go back to rolling my own monitoring infra if I could avoid it. I had nagios, cacti, munin, graphite all running and had two ops guys pretty much 80% of their time managing it.<p>Stackdriver with pagerduty and I have 250,000 custom metrics being published and hundreds and hundreds of graphs on dozens of dashboards.<p>Although, I am looking at SignalFX to give even better version of this, but I manage nearly 1,000 machines with only a staff of four.
Am I wrong in saying this is a web interface that wraps PCP? So you can't really compare it to inspeqtor or collectd since those actually do the metrics collection.
What does this have that CloudWatch enhanced metrics doesn't? From the screenshots, the metrics look pretty similar. Not a slight at all against this project (it looks awesome), I'm just curious if your infrastructure is already AWS based what would cause you to choose a non-CloudWatch option.
Wow this looks great, thanks for releasing it! Nice to see even 'simple' stuff like this that can help people who aren't running at Netflix scale is still released.
This is a slight tangent...but does anybody know what UI toolkit Netflix is using for this?<p>Or if it's in-house, any info on whether they have, or might release it?<p>I see bootstrap-submenu.css mentioned, but not Bootstrap itself:<p><a href="https://github.com/Netflix/vector/tree/master/app/css" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Netflix/vector/tree/master/app/css</a>
Anyone care to compare this to something like collectd? <a href="https://collectd.org/" rel="nofollow">https://collectd.org/</a>