Keeping data for ASG hosts
One big issue we are currently dealing with is that we can't see or keep data for hosts that are no longer in service. It has come to the point where we are about to drop zabbix as our backend -and we all our operational logic in zabbix so this is a huge deal for us. Here is our scenario -
app uses a mix of static and autoscaling hosts.
Zabbix Agents on all hosts register themselves when they are born.
When hosts are terminated after the load, there could be as many as 100 hosts in zabbix that are now gone. If I disable the host, I keep the data, but then I have 100 + hosts added to inventory daily. If I delete the hosts, I no longer have the data for dashboards.
Imagine after your production load goes, so does all the data on the dashboards.
I don't see anyone dealing with this - only the typical - "yeah you delete after a week so ppl can view recent data". So I have to expect I can't produce long term graphs
We have a workaround where we have a calculated item on the Proxy that keeps the average of the group stats (sum(web-server-traffic)) but this is suboptimal and requires maintenance on every item we want to track.
Is there a way to keep data for hosts that are gone without polluting your inventory?
thanks
app uses a mix of static and autoscaling hosts.
Zabbix Agents on all hosts register themselves when they are born.
When hosts are terminated after the load, there could be as many as 100 hosts in zabbix that are now gone. If I disable the host, I keep the data, but then I have 100 + hosts added to inventory daily. If I delete the hosts, I no longer have the data for dashboards.
Imagine after your production load goes, so does all the data on the dashboards.
I don't see anyone dealing with this - only the typical - "yeah you delete after a week so ppl can view recent data". So I have to expect I can't produce long term graphs
We have a workaround where we have a calculated item on the Proxy that keeps the average of the group stats (sum(web-server-traffic)) but this is suboptimal and requires maintenance on every item we want to track.
Is there a way to keep data for hosts that are gone without polluting your inventory?
thanks