All activation scripts run in serial upon boot and nixos-rebuild switch
etc., in contrast to preStart which run before a service starts, and can
run in parallel with other services.
The munin(-node) activation script is particularly slow. Change it to a
preStart script so that it can run in parallel with other services and
not slow down boot (or nixos-rebuild switch).
This reduces (repeated) "nixos-rebuild test" time from ~16 seconds to ~8
on my (old) laptop.
- Upgrade Nagios Core to 4.x
- Expose mainConfigFile and cgiConfigFile in module for finer
configuration control.
- Upgrade Plugins to 2.x
- Remove default objectDefs, which users probably want to customize.
- Systemd-ify Nagios module and simplify directory structure
- Upgrade Nagios package with more modern patch, and ensure the
statedir is set to /var/lib/nagios
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Currently, the restartTriggers are abusing the systemd unit file in that
the cfg.carbon.config/storageAggregation/... option text is pasted into
the unit file. Even though this sort-of works (the service is restarted
if the config changes) this causes systemd to print error messages about
invalid sections (rightfully so!).
The correct use of restartTriggers is to list storage paths, which is
what this change does. If any of the
cfg.carbon/config/storageAggregation/... options change, configDir will
get a new hash. It is not as "fine grained" as the current version, but
it is not abusing the interface.
Also, remove unneeded 'waitress' in one of the restartTriggers, because
it is already listed as part of the service config.
graphitePort must point to the port that carbon-cache listens on, not
the graphite webUI port.
With this change I finally got data from statsd to graphite.
It's "aggregation" with two 'g's.
Fixes this:
carbon-cache[9363]: [console] /nix/store/drxq4jj92sjk3cjik2l4hnsndbray3i4-graphite-config/storage-aggregation.conf not found, ignoring.
This overhauls the Datadog module a bit to be much more useful. In
particular, it adds support for nginx and postgresql monitoring
integrations to dd-agent. These have to exist in separate files under
/etc/dd-agent, so the module just exposes then as separate options. In
the future, more integrations could be added this way.
In the process of doing this, I also had to rename the dd-agent user to
datadog. Note the UIDs did not change, so this is strictly backwards
compatible. The reason for this is to make it easier to create a
'datadog' postgres user with access to pg_stats, as 'dd-agent' typically
isn't a valid username. This allows the out of the box configurations to
be used.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
mkdir -m will only set the permissions if it *creates* the directory.
Existing directories, with possibly wrong permissions, will not be
updated.
Use explicit chmod so permissions will always be correct.
The preStart snippets (graphite, carbon) try to create directories under
/var/db/. That currently fails because the code is run as user
"graphite". Fix by setting "PermissionsStartOnly = true" so that the
preStart stuff is run as 'root'.
Further:
* graphite-web-0.9.12/bin/build-index.sh needs perl, so add it to PATH.
* Now that preStart runs as root, we must wait with "chown graphite"
until we're done creating files/directories.
* Drop needless check for root (uid 0) before running chown.
Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
To be compatible with eb2f44c18c (Generate
/etc/passwd and /etc/group at build time). Without this you'll get this:
$ nixos-rebuild build
[...]
user-thrown exception: The option `users.extraGroups.unnamed-9.1.gid' is used but not defined.
(systemd service descriptions that is, not service descriptions in "man
configuration.nix".)
Capitalizing each word in the description seems to be the accepted
standard.
Also shorten these descriptions:
* "Munin node, the agent process" => "Munin Node"
* "Planet Venus, an awesome ‘river of news’ feed reader" => "Planet Venus Feed Reader"
Twisted provides option to log with syslog, this enables nicer logging.
Imagine what happens in a case of exception. If logs are written to stdout,
traceback won't be merged thus giving ugly logs. This commit fixes that.
This is also one of the official ways of starting carbon, so no worries.
