Nagios 2.0 performance

[Ben]

Why did nagios 2 drop db support?

On Sep 8, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Ben wrote:
>> I'm in a similar boat. Nagios 2 is a vast improvement over the list 
>> traversals of 1.x, but it's still pretty bad, even when keeping files 
>> on a ram disk.
>>> From my profiling, it appears almost all time is spent reading the 
>>> status.
>> Like you say, it seems like this should be able to be cached. I was 
>> hoping that's what the database option would do, but it seems nagios 
>> doesn't exactly use a database to its full potential.... instead, it 
>> just mimics the same behavior as when using flatfiles.
>> When I ever get some time (haha), I was planning on looking into the
>> codebase more and trying to decide if I should impliment a scheme with
>> shared memory (so that would stay persistant between cgi runs), or a 
>> more
>> intelligent usage of the database.... say, maybe, using materialized
>> views. If anybody else has any suggestions on which path to take, I'm 
>> all ears....
>
> The by far easiest way to fix the logging issues would be to hack up 
> nagios to only log to stdout, and then store everything in a pretty 
> much flat SQL database. Then you can rewrite the cgi's in a 
> webfriendly language with excellent database and hashing support (PHP 
> comes to mind).
>
> Flush the database to disk every other month or so, and just live with 
> the fact that the yearly report takes an hour or two to create. It's 
> not like you do it every day anyway.
>
> I've been thinking about doing this myself for some time now, but just 
> like you, I just can't find the time to do it.



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