IT Infrastructure Insights

LogAnomaly doesn’t promise full observability or endless insights. That’s not the goal. It just helps spot oddities early — before they snowball.

Shinken was born out of a simple frustration: classic Nagios couldn’t scale, and patching it didn’t get any easier. Instead of rewriting everything from scratch, the idea was to keep what worked — the config model, the plugins — and build a more flexible, distributed backend around it. In practice, that meant splitting up responsibilities into modules that could run on different machines, and moving the whole thing to Python.

Octopussy doesn’t reinvent log handling. It just makes it usable again — especially when the team’s busy and incidents don’t come with flashing red lights.

Meerkat isn’t trying to take over your monitoring stack. It won’t chart CPU load or give you SNMP stats. What it will do is whisper, “that thing wasn’t here yesterday,” at just the right time.

Lnav isn’t trying to be “enterprise” anything. It’s not a monitoring platform. It’s not a replacement for centralized logging.