Announcing Meerkat, an new Icinga Dashboard tool

Visualization, Metrics & Reporting
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Sol1 is proud to announce the launch of Meerkat, a dashboard tool for Icinga2, just in time for community week!

Meerkat is a utility to create and share dashboards for Icinga2 checks and hosts. Meerkat a lightweight service which only requires a Go server and a small amount of javascript (only 14KB gzipped) for the frontend. It’s quick to setup and easy to use. There is an editor interface when you can set a background for a dashboard and start overlaying checks which update by polling the Icinga2 API via the Meerkat backend.

You can get Meerkat here: https://gitlab.sol1.net/oss/meerkat

It is also available on docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/sol1/meerkat

We welcome some feedback and usage, please give is a whirl and let us know what you think!

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Is there a non-Docker install method or Makefile?

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Ah yep there used to be. I have restored the original instructions, but I haven’t tested them. It should be close, but please let me know if it doesn’t work for you.

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We have continued to upgrade and enhance Meerkat. We have also fixed up the gitlab permissions to allow for external bug requests etc. Please sign up and contribute!
Recent enhancements include a ticker, and a templating feature to allow for dynamically generated dashboards.

More features to come!

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We moved Meerkat to GitHub and got it a domain name: https://meerkat.run
I will be giving an intro talk about it at Icinga Camp in a couple of weeks. Lots of bugfixes and other features are in the works. Would love more feedback.

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Thanks for sharing it on here… I will have to check it out.

One question: Is it possible to create a dashboard for dependencies such as VMs to parent Hypervisors ?

Thanks

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Sure. You would just have a line or other element and relate them together.

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I gave a talk about Meerkat at Icinga Camp Berlin. Hopefully this is helpful introduction.

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