Remote access to varnish stats / nagios and varnish

[Per Buer]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:22 PM, david raistrick <drais at icantclick.org>wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Per Buer wrote:
>
>  The implementation of "stats" wasn't really up to scratch and was ditched
>> in
>> Varnish 3.0. However, wrapping "varnishstat -1 -x" in a tiny CGI service
>> is
>> probably a 15 minute job.
>>
>
> What? really?  wtf?  stats is gone from the management interface?
>
> Damn good thing we never updated to 3.0...and sounds like we never will. :(
>

There isn't much work going into maintaining the 2.1 branch so I would not
recommend, at least not without paying a bit of attention.

Network services absolutely -must- provide network interfaces for
> statistics polling!  IMPO.
>

I'm not sure I agree. Binding varnishstat to a TCP port through xinetd or
another inetd variant is trivial. Also, if you insist on having the stats
command "in line" you could use the varnish agent (
https://github.com/varnish/varnish-agent) which also ads a couple of other
commands into the protocol.


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