Extopus - The Monitoring Aggregator

Extopus is an aggregating frontend to monitoring systems. Its plug-in architecture provides an easy route to integrating output from a wide array of monitoring systems into a single instance of Extopus.

Integration can range from simple iframe-ing a particular page from another monitoring system to accessing data from another system using rpc calls and displaying the results in a custom presentation plugin inside the Extopus frontend.

The Extopus backend is written in Perl (using Mojolicious) and the frontend is written in javascript (with Qooxdoo). This architecture provides a high level of implementation flexibility and allowed us to create a highly interactive end user experience.

Whether you have a small setup with a few hundred or a large one with millions of items, Extopus will provide a user friendly interface to accessing your monitoring data.

Demo

Extopus configuration is quite flexible, the followig demo links show how Extopus could provide an admin and a user view of the same underlying data:

• Admin View
• User View Donkey Systems
• User View Hamster Technologies

Status, August 2013

Work has started on making SmokePing and Extopus work together. This work has been commissioned by CatchPoint. SmokePing version 3 will use Extopus as its front end and focus its own activity on organizing the data acquisition. SmokePing 3 development is happening on GitHub.

Roadmap

• Integrating Remocular
• Integrating (probably at a later stage) collectd and Nagios.

If Extopus looks interesting to you and you would like to contract us for custom integration work or provide sponsoring, please be in touch.

Download

There is no official release of Extopus yet, but we develop in the open, so come visit our Git Hub repository. To get your own copy, run "git clone git://github.com/oetiker/extopus.git".