application level monitoring for python

[John J Lee]

Walter Chang <weidezhang2007 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> is there any open source library for python that can allow application
> level monitoring ? For example,application can send per request level/
> aggregated monitoring events and some remote server dump it and show
> in the monitoring graph in real time  ?  What's best way of doing
> that ?

Zenoss is a popular tool for that kind of thing.  Here's an example of
sending a Zenoss event over XML-RPC:

http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2009/05/send-events-to-zenoss-from-scripts/

Presumably you can send it evnts over other transports somehow (e.g. UDP).

Zenoss is itself implemented in Python.


John