Integrating Nagios with Test Driven Development

[Vonnahme, Nathan]

Cool!  Nagios-cucumber looks like a great tool. I knew I wasn't the only one thinking along those lines.

You're right that Nagios isn't a Continuous Integration tool. I'm just thinking that functionality can suffer because of things other than new commits, especially on a production app. So reusing existing functional tests for monitoring seems like a good way to increase monitoring coverage.

And I think sysadmins could benefit from using test tools to prove assertions about the environment and infrastructure underneath the application.

Thanks for your feedback, Ranjib!
-n

From: ranjib dey [mailto:dey.ranjib at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 8:24 PM
To: Nagios Developers List
Cc: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Integrating Nagios with Test Driven Development

Well, monitoring tools like nagios are more used against in production or mission critical infrastructure/apps. While unit tests are a part of development practices and there are dedicated tools (called as Continuous Integration tools) used for checking unit tests outputs. Jenkin/Hudson, crucise control, goldberg, Go etc are few of them. These tools can monitor a code repository (git/svn/hg etc) and pull in new commits and then run the unit/functional test automatically and then notify/alert accordingly.

If your unit tests are failing, then it means they are not going via a CI tool.  To me testing and monitoring are pretty different.

Never the less, i like the idea :-). We do use nagios-cucumber for work flow monitoring against some of our apps.
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