New Special Interest Group Focuses on Open Source Monitoring
Posted by: Greg Paul in Network Management
Open source monitoring now has its own special interest group, Monitoring SIG, organized by GroundWork Open Source in conjunction with BayLISA, the Bay Area’s Large Installation Systems Administrators chapter.
Monitoring the network is difficult — the potential for capturing too much or too little information is high, and without the right tools, it’s easy to flood the system or to miss crucial elements.
The well-attended inaugural Monitoring SIG event in San Francisco last month included IT staff from Cisco and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center among others.
“What’s exciting is that interested people can meet and explore issues in the field itself as well as the possibilities of their own technology and the technology of others,” said Peter Mui, community manager of GroundWork Open Source. “This next meeting is focused around mapping out the monitoring space. It will be a kind of ’show-and-tell’ of monitoring tools that will give attendees a chance to champion or rant about monitoring projects that have had experience with.”
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