Hastur: Open-Source Scalable Metrics with Cassandra

Links to other materials:<p>Video for the talk for these slides: <a href="http://youtu.be/r2nGBUuvVmc" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/r2nGBUuvVmc</a><p>Server: <a href="https://github.com/ooyala/hastur-server" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ooyala/hastur-server</a><p>Ruby client: <a href="https://github.com/ooyala/hastur" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ooyala/hastur</a>

Almost exactly what I have been developing except I'm using D for the agent, sigar for the system metrics, and thrift for the communication.<p>What are the community's thoughts on requiring Ruby for the agent to run? Also, are there plans to make this cross platform is this just scratching an itch for Ooyala?