Re: [Hawkular-dev] scope of the agent design

On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 06:41:38 Michael Burman wrote: I don't see a difference here. IMHO, integration with a 3rd party monitoring tool is the same as writing a plugin for monitoring an application. Both can change incompatibly out of our control and we'll always be just catching up on. The reason I think integration with 3rd party monitoring is better is that, more probably than not, people will have used some monitoring solution by the time they decide to use Hawkular. If we offer them integration with their existing monitoring solution they will love us. If we tell them they need to toss everything they have and instead deploy our stuff that might or might not do what they were used to, they might not love us at all ;) Well, that is a big question. How are you going to force people to write Hawkular plugins? Sure, this can be done inside Red Hat were we follow the common goal and divide the work across the teams, but I doubt community will be chuffed to learn yet another way of monitoring. But then again, that is what we propose, too ;) Integrate with existing monitoring solutions AND provide libraries for people to easily write their own feeds to Hawkular.