The new unified monitoring architecture (MONIT) for the CERN Data Centres and for the WLCG Infrastructure is based on established open source technologies to collect, stream, store and access monitoring data. The previous solutions, based on in-house development and commercial software, have been replaced with widely- recognized technologies such as Collectd, Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Grafana and others. The monitoring infrastructure, fully based on CERN cloud resources, covers the whole workflow of the monitoring data: from collecting and validating metrics and logs to making them available for dashboards, reports and alarms. The deployment in production of this new DC and WLCG monitoring is well under way and this contribution provides a summary of the progress, hurdles met and lessons learned in using these open source technologies. It also focuses on the choices made to achieve the required levels of stability, scalability and performance of the MONIT monitoring service.
Monitoring of the CERN Data Centres and the WLCG infrastructure is now largely based on the new monitoring infrastructure provided by CERN IT. This is the result of the migration from several old in-house developed monitoring tools into a common monitoring infrastructure based on open source technologies such as Collectd, Flume, Kafka, Spark, InfluxDB, Grafana and others. This new infrastructure relies on CERN IT services (OpenStack, Puppet, Gitlab, DBOD, etc) and covers the full range of monitoring tasks: metrics and logs collection, alarms generation, data validation and transport, data enrichment and aggregation (where applicable), dashboards visualisation, reports generation, etc. This contribution will present the different services offered by the infrastructure today, highlight the main monitoring use cases from the CERN Data Centres and WLCG, and analyse the last years experience of moving from legacy well-established custom monitoring tools into a common open source-based infrastructure.
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