Re: JSON support for monit's http interface

[Jens Braeuer]

Thanks for the links. It seems the work of "decrypting" the XML has
already been done. ;-)
After a quick look, I will most likely go with the monit gem:
https://github.com/k33l0r/monit

Cheers,
Jens

On 26.01.2012 10:03, Callum Macdonald wrote:
> Somebody else might know better, I've never looked at the monit source,
> but I found the XML interface and it's format from looking at a couple
> of open source monit aggregator / graphing tools, there's a few around:
> https://code.google.com/p/monit-graph/
> https://github.com/mattfawcett/monit-aggregator
> https://github.com/karmi/monittr
>
> As far as I can tell, the big advantage of M/Monit is that the
> individual monit instances *push* updates to the M/Monit server. While
> using the XML file it's necessary to poll.
>
> I dare say the monit -> M/Monit format is probably some kind of XML and
> could probably be unpacked, but that's not what you're trying to do. :-)
>
> Cheers - Callum.
>
> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 09:57 +0100, Jens Braeuer wrote:
>> Hi Callum,
>>
>> thanks a lot, this is what I looked for!
>>
>> Is there some documentation what the different type's and status' mean? Eg.
>>
>> <service type="3">
>>   ...
>>   <status>0</status>
>> </service>
>>
>> Is it defined in some central place in the source?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jens
>>
>> On 26.01.2012 09:51, Callum Macdonald wrote:
>>> Hi Jens,
>>>
>>> In case you weren't aware, you can get data from monit in XML format:
>>> http://localhost:2812/_status?format=xml
>>>
>>> Love & joy - Callum.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 09:38 +0100, Jens Braeuer wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> first of all I want to thank you Tildeslash for Monit! I run Monit for
>>>> ~8 month now and it works great!
>>>>
>>>> My current setup is configured in a way, that monit makes sure, the
>>>> local services run. On top of this, I use Icinga (a Nagios fork) to
>>>> ensure Monit runs on all hosts.
>>>>
>>>> To make the Icinga check more detailed, I would like to get JSON out of
>>>> Monit's webinterface.
>>>>
>>>> So, is there currently support for JSON status pages in Monit? (Could
>>>> not find anything in the docs). Is there a chance you guys could add it?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jens
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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