A Zookeeper-based Monitoring Server

I have recently started developing a simple Monitoring server, using Zookeeper as the main distributed controller.

Over the next few weeks I will be describing how the system hangs together and can be used to generate arbitrary alerts (with a plugin architecture) when a server fails.

“babysitter“ comprises of:

1. a Python client library to register and update server state;
2. a Java Monitor Server;
3. a Java (plugin) Alert Manager;
4. a simple REST API to manage the server.