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Why Nimble should open up InfoSight to the community (like vOpenData)

Joep Piscaer of VirtualLifestyle.nl writes:

InfoSight  is the resulting product of this philosophy. It’s a cloud-based monitoring application and monitors about 20,000 sensors (or metrics) in any given array to monitoring, basic health on software processes, hardware (temperature etc.), controller high availability, replication (incl. any errors). These heartbeats containing basic metrics are sent back every 5 minutes, and more comprehensive telemetry data is rolled up and sent back daily, resulting in about 30 million data points per array per day.

There is wisdom in Joep’s words. Opening InfoSight to the community will spur development of plugins and allow Nimble to use it as a framework for monitoring and insight.

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