The LibreHealth Infrastructure Team is responsible for maintaining the infrastructure which LibreHealth relies on. Part of this requires that we have consistent monitoring/alerting if systems are misbehaving or become unavailable.

Services provided to us free as an Open Source organization

Datadog

We are very gracious to Datadog for providing use of their service free of charge through their open source program.

About Datadog

Datadog is a cloud-based service which provides infrastructure monitoring. We utilize ansible to provision nearly all servers and used the official ansible role to install the datadog agent, but they have an official Puppet module and Chef cookbook as well. If you’re one of those people, you can also install their agent manually.

How we use it

We currently monitor the following: memory usage (take note that free memory in linux is not what you think it is), disk utilization, swap, host down, and docker daemon up. These We also monitor nginx and apache as well.

We would like to set up public dashboards so that we can see at a glance, the health of our infrastructure, and will have links here when those are created.