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

More screenshots are available here

The backend components are written in Python and the web frontend in JavaScript so there is nothing to compile.

• ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ ie. a message broker that supports STOMP
• MongoDB

• elasticsearch
• Kibana

Note: None of these packages require special configuration to work with Alerta.

See the alerta wiki

If you'd like to hack on Alerta, start by forking this repo on GitHub.

http://github.com/guardian/alerta

Alerta monitoring system and console
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