This blog post by Russel Ballestrini is in the direction of using Salt for at least part of your infrastructure management systems.
http://ift.tt/1f8H2lk
For system monitoring, I’d like to be able to run “salt ‘*’ cmd.run….” commands periodically. Have Nagios/Icinga plugins on the minions that get called by the Salt commands. Dump the output straight into an elasticsearch cluster and then do stuff with it from there.
I reason is that I’ve found Nagios and Icinga to be really really complex to set up and configure. Why not remove the need to set that up and just do a lot of the work with Salt? Alert thresholds, alerting systems, statistical stuff would be something to still figure out (yeah, really easy, that).
Maybe this is just roll-your-own pie in the sky thinking, but it sure would be nice to be able to use Salt for management as well as the monitoring/scheduling engine.
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