[atlas] VM probes (was Re: Feature request for IP record route feature in RIPE Atlas)

On 2015/11/10 14:01 , Colin Johnston wrote:
>> One way of looking at it, are the people who want a VM willing to
>> guarantee that the VM performs better than the current Soekris boxes we
>> use for anchors? And is there is way of monitoring that they live up to
>> their promises.
>>
> A well managed vm is monitored/firewalled for traffic and process load monitored to work within predefined boundaries and alerting in place if issues which I thought Ripe Atlas would be good monitoring addition to.

I was thinking of monitoring within Atlas. I.e. if the Atlas system can
say, this VM is operating within specs, you can trust the results.