217|211|7||1674311364|7|1674492749|0|Flapjack is one of the most prominent tools today, and this is because it can be very useful in different occasions, therefore, we will dedicate this content to make known the main contributions of this tool to the entire community, and to begin with we will first define Flapjack.

What is Flapjack?

In simple words Flapjack is a flexible monitoring notification routing system, which is in charge of: - Alert routing: in other words (determines who should receive alerts based on interest, time of day, scheduled maintenance, and so on). - Alert summary: (with summary thresholds per user and per medium) - Standard operational tasks (set scheduled maintenance, confirmations, etc.)

When to use Flapjack

We recommend using Flapjack for four specific functions that can guarantee you an excellent result (if you use it for other purposes, it is at your own risk).

This program will be useful to you if: - You want to identify faults faster - Monitor infrastructures that have several teams responsible for maintaining them - Your monitoring infrastructure is multi-user and each client has its own customized alerting strategy. - If you want to go a little further and experiment with alternative check execution engines, such as Sensu, Icinga or cron in parallel to Nagios.

Flapjack's contributions to the community

From a technical point of view, this tool presents some of the most important features today, in this opportunity we will mention the 2 main features we have found in Flapjack, but of course it has many more. Flapjack provides a scalable method for handling events that represent changes in the system state, in addition to processing events received from external check execution engines, such as Nagios.

Our opinion about Flapjack

By way of summary, we just want to add that despite not being the most popular or used tool on the market, you can become one of the most interesting for all the elements that compose it, in addition to all the features that allows us to perform. With this opinion we are not trying to induce you to use the tool, but rather to introduce you to this system and let its own contributions and benefits make you use the tool.