django-monit - A Simple Monit Collector

django-monit is a very dumb (but free) replacement for M/Monit, the commerical product built around the amazing Monit management and monitoring tool.

django-monit is a reusable Django application providing a central Monit "collector" and storage of the Monit nodes' information and events. Currently, django-monit can be installed as an app within an existing Django site. In the future, a tool could build a simple Django project if someone wished to only deploy django-monit.

At this point, django-monit only acts as a collector of information from any number of Monit nodes, and can not push restart commands to the nodes as M/Monit can do.

My goal currently is to create a tool for making Monit data easily accessible from a Django project, rather than acting as a replacement for M/Monit.

django-monit has been tested on the Django 1.2 trunk using Monit 5.0.3 provided as a Ubuntu 9.10 package.

Installation

The easiest way to install django-monit is via pip:

pip install django-monit

Add 'monit' to the INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py

Add url(r'^monit/', include('monit.urls')) in your urls.py:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^app/', include('yourapp.urls')),
    url(r'^monit/', include('monit.urls')),
    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Configure Monit

In the monitrc, you should configure your django-monit instance as a collector:

set mmonit http://monit:monit@192.168.1.10:8000/monit/collector

Dependencies

• Django (tested on pre-1.2 trunk)
• lxml

Testing

If you have checked out the source, you can run the test suite, which uses a simple Django project in the test_project folder:

cd test_project
# create a virtualenv and install the dependencies
create_env.sh
# run the tests
./manage.py test monit