Timon is a an implementation of a low resource low performance monitoring system.

It has mainly been implemented as a programming exercise, which started when I noticed, that our monitoring system at work (shinken a python fork of nagios) was using way too many resources.

I'm sure there's other solutions, which will be more complete, more compatible, more efficient, more whatever. But here my attempt on a simple monitoring solution using few resources, but still being implemented in a high level language (Python3 with asyncio)

Objectives:

• 0 memory footprint (crontab driven) or low memory footprint (one bash / or python process only) while idle
• asynchronous efficient implementation, but allow threads subprocesses
• configurable/skalable to adapt to resources available and amount of services to monitor
• easy to install (just clone or pip install)
• easy to configure (one yaml file)
• easy to enhance (simple python module import)

Commands:

• timon init create a new timon project
• timon config compiles/parses/checks config
• timon run runs monitoring (one shoot or loop)
• timon status displays timon status

Configuration: a sample config file