[asterisk-users] Real-time (low latency) monitoring for

[Antony Stone]

On Saturday 15 December 2018 at 19:25:32, Andre Gronwald wrote:

> You might have a look into Homer . It is really great, the community is
> great, but it won't give you all the metrics you want. But it might be a
> good start.

Thanks.  I know about Homer (and am on the mailing list for it).

My impressions are that:

a) it's rather specifically SIP-message based, so it can tell me about 
communications between Asterisk and my SIP clients / trunks, but it won't tell 
me about anything (non-SIP) specific to Asterisk

b) it's not real-time - I'm not aware that it has any Dashboard-style display 
which can tell me, second-by-second, how many calls are in progress, how long 
the current longest call is, how many calls have been processed today, etc...

If I'm wrong, please point me at some docs which tell me how to use it for 
what I want, but my idea about it is that it's more of an after-the-fact SIP 
analysis tool, not a real-time "what is my Asterisk server doing *now* " tool.


Regards,


Antony.

> > Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 17:30:37 +0100
> > From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at asterisk.open.source.it>
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [asterisk-users] Real-time (low latency) monitoring for
> > 
> >         Asterisk
> > 
> > Message-ID: <201812151730.37546.Antony.Stone at asterisk.open.source.it>
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> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for a *really* real-time monitoring
> > solution for Asterisk?
> > 
> > I'm thinking that something like Grafana (which I've played with for
> > another
> > purpose, but don't really use yet) can do a good job of displaying the
> > data
> > with very little latency, but I'm wondering what the best plugin for
> > getting
> > the data into it might be.
> > 
> > What I'm looking for is a "dashboard" display of Asterisk activity (SIP
> > channels currently in use, SIP devices currently registered, duration of
> > longest call currently in progress, that sort of thing) but with a very
> > low
> > latency - so when someone places a call, for example, it shows up on the
> > dashboard within a couple of seconds at most.
> > 
> > I'm not looking for anything to show details of individual calls - just
> > summaries of all the calls currently going through the system.
> > 
> > I'm currently using Asterisk 13 on Debian Stretch (with, if it matters,
> > the
> > classic SIP driver, not PJ-SIP), with ODBC real-time CDRs and CEL, I'm
> > happy
> > with a plugin which connects via AMI if that helps, and the system has no
> > queues, no hunt groups, just simple DDI -> SIP account mappings.
> > 
> > Any ideas, people?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > Antony.

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