Overview

Documentation for M4 System, the Modern Monitoring and Management System.

Work in Progress. Feel free to contribute with a Pull Request!

Features

  • Web-based multi-tenant SLA management system using django and python 3
  • Mysql for general storage
  • InfluxDB for historical time-series storage
  • Grafana for graphing historical data
  • Memcached for volatile cache
  • RabbitMQ as distributed queuing system
  • Djcelery as task runner
  • HTML5 responsive frontend with static asset compression
  • Per-group views
  • Backend admin panel using Jet django-admin
  • Asset list
  • Assign checks to multiple assets
  • SNMP and bash exec available (numbers, strings, booleans)
  • Assign warning and critical thresholds to checks
  • Assign SLAs to checks
  • Checks, thresholds and SLAs can be configured to fail on 1 or all hosts/checks assigned for complex scenarios like redundant pumps.
  • Email template editor in the Back-end
  • Group-based notifications.
  • Users can edit their own notification email in the frontend.
  • View check info, last 30 minutes and download historicals from the front end as a user.
  • Group-based Permission system for silencing checks, seeing info, graph and historical
  • Metadata system
  • Reports using django management commands
  • Full audit log of object modifications (django-reversion). events, errors.
  • Temporary silence checks from the front-end
  • SNMP Traps collection (for vertiv gear)
  • Easily identify threshold and SLA faults on the front-end with color transitions

Why do I want it?

With M4 System, you can address complex scenarios involving many hundreds of devices.
Manage everything from a web UI with access control and a full audit trail.

  • What is it good for?: SNMP monitoring.

  • What is it not good for?: Network and System Monitoring. While it is able to do such monitoring, other software will do a better job.

  • What is it not yet good for?: Modbus Monitoring.

Where should I go next?

Interested ? Keep on reading.


Last modified December 18, 2019: Fix the doc (50070ce)