Hello,
I'm wanting to experiment with Hadoop and its related parts like Pig and HBase and I'm trying to think of an interesting (and most importantly useful) project to start on with these tools that would be related to Nagios.
I have access to ~200 hosting servers running Apache/MySQL/PHP/Nagios (so I have lots of logs/data that I could work with) I just can't seem to think of a non-trivial project that I could work on that would be of use to a hosting company.
Can anyone suggest ideas? What do Yahoo! and RackSpace use Hadoop for? I would be especially interested in using Hadoop with Nagios to contribute to http://www.nagios.org/seedcamp.
Thanks, I hope this isn't viewed as subjective!