Introspective Monitoring¶ ↑

Enough with active checks! Make your service advertise its state to Nagios.

HOWTO¶ ↑

1. Define your service check by implementing com.ning.nagios.ServiceCheck

2. Configure how your service talks to Nagios by implementing com.ning.nagios.ServiceMonitor

3. Register the check with your ServiceMonitor

For example, assuming you have a Config object:

public class NagiosMonitor implements ServiceMonitor
{
    private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(NagiosMonitor.class);

    private final ConcurrentMap<String, MonitoredService> services = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, MonitoredService>();
    private final PassiveCheckSender sender;
    private final MessagePayloadBuilder payloadBuilder;
    private final TimeSpan checkRate;

    @Inject
    public NagiosMonitor(final Config config)
    {
        this.sender = new NagiosPassiveCheckSender(new NagiosSettingsBuilder()
            .withNagiosHost(config.getNagiosHost())
            .withPort(config.getNagiosPort())
            .withEncryption(config.getNagiosEncryption())
            .withPassword(config.getNagiosPassword())
            .withConnectionTimeout((int) config.getNagiosTimeout().getMillis())
            .withResponseTimeout((int) config.getNagiosTimeout().getMillis())
            .create());
        this.payloadBuilder = new MessagePayloadBuilder().withHostname(config.getNagiosReportedHostname());
        this.checkRate = config.getNagiosCheckRate();
    }

    @Override
    public MonitoredService registerServiceCheck(final String serviceName, final ServiceCheck check)
    {
        final MonitoredService service = new JsendnscaService(serviceName, checkRate, check, sender, payloadBuilder);
        final MonitoredService existingService = services.putIfAbsent(serviceName, service);

        if (existingService != null) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(String.format("Service check [%s] has already been registered", serviceName));
        }

        log.info(String.format("Added service [%s] with check rate of [%s]", service, checkRate));

        return service;
    }
}

You can now do

// Talk to Nagios
final ServiceCheck check = injector.getInstance(ServiceCheck.class);
final ServiceMonitor serviceMonitor = injector.getInstance(ServiceMonitor.class);
serviceMonitor.registerServiceCheck(config.getNagiosServiceName(), check);

Note: the library comes with com.ning.nagios.FakeNagiosMonitor for testing.

License (see LICENSE-2.0.txt file for full license)¶ ↑

Copyright 2011 Ning

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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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