The Alerta monitoring tool was developed with the following aims in mind:

• distributed and de-coupled so that it is SCALABLE
• minimal CONFIGURATION that easily accepts alerts from any source
• quick at-a-glance VISUALISATION with drill-down to detail

Related projects can be found on the Alerta Org Repo at https://github.com/alerta/.

The only mandatory dependency is MongoDB. Everything else is optional.

• MongoDB version 3.x

A messaging transport that supports AMQP is required if it is wanted to send notifications to alert subscribers. It is recommended to use RabbitMQ, but Redis and even MongoDB have been tested and shown to work.

• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• MongoDB

Note: The default settings use MongoDB so that no additional configuration is required.

To install MongoDB on Debian/Ubuntu run::

$ sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
$ mongod

To install the Alerta server and client run::

$ pip install alerta-server alerta
$ alertad

To install the web console run::

$ wget -O alerta-web.tgz https://github.com/alerta/angular-alerta-webui/tarball/master
$ tar zxvf alerta-web.tgz
$ cd alerta-angular-alerta-webui-*/app
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

>> browse to http://localhost:8000

To configure the alertad server override the default settings in /etc/alertad.conf or using ALERTA_SVR_CONF_FILE environment variable::

$ ALERTA_SVR_CONF_FILE=~/.alertad.conf
$ echo "DEBUG=True" > $ALERTA_SVR_CONF_FILE

More information on configuration and other aspects of alerta can be found at http://docs.alerta.io

To run the tests use::

$ ALERTA_SVR_CONF_FILE= nosetests

Alerta can be deployed to the cloud easily using Heroku https://github.com/alerta/heroku-api-alerta, AWS EC2 https://github.com/alerta/alerta-cloudformation, or RedHat OpenShift https://github.com/alerta/openshift-api-alerta

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