I've been working on a open source storage solution(http://rockstor.com) to address some of these concerns, which I broadly categorize as "smart storage management". So far we have a few dashboard widgets that give insight into usage patterns and some probes for storage analytics. I think that alert mechanisms should model storage consumption and I/O patterns at the very least. Not only is it important to alert, but also provide recommendations so the admin/user has a clear action to follow up with. For example, "hey, you are running out of space at rate X, mainly due to files of type Y and you have W weeks until you completely run out of space. You can migrate these Z-set of files to archival storage which give you M more months of time." We hope to get there with Rockstor.
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I've been working on a open source storage solution(http://rockstor.com) to address some of these concerns, which I broadly categorize as "smart storage management". So far we have a few dashboard widgets that give insight into usage patterns and some probes for storage analytics. I think that alert mechanisms should model storage consumption and I/O patterns at the very least. Not only is it important to alert, but also provide recommendations so the admin/user has a clear action to follow up with. For example, "hey, you are running out of space at rate X, mainly due to files of type Y and you have W weeks until you completely run out of space. You can migrate these Z-set of files to archival storage which give you M more months of time." We hope to get there with Rockstor.