millioneyes

Introduction

This was essentially a science project to see if I could duplicate what commercial services do an mimic a "million eyes" of offsite website checks.

Using any number of Amazon regions, we launch the smallest instance we can and run telegraf.

Telegraf can report to a number of end points. The example code reports to Wavefront (largely because I worked there when I first hacked on this).

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The code

terraform: sample code that launches a single instance in an arbitary number of regions.
ansible: playbooks that, among other things, installs and configures telegraf.
wavefront: sample Wavefront dashboard