This week I point to an interview that Erin Watkins did with me on the Assimilation Monitoring project.  Her questions do a good job of getting at what the project is, why I started it and why it's cool.

It's still true: Monitoring sucks. Server monitoring is a touchy subject, and if you've got a large quantity of servers in your arsenal, it's doubly so.

Through a combination of discovery and monitoring, Alan Robertson's Assimilation Monitoring Project hopes to ease those monitoring woes. Robertson, Linux developer and founder of the High-Availability Linux (Linux HA) project, will speak at LinuxCon North America 2012 in San Diego at the end of August. In this Q&A, we discuss what this project is and how it can help.

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