[Cialug] Monitoring?

[David Champion]

Check out FAN. I like it better than adagios.
-dc
On Jan 25, 2015 3:12 PM, "David Bierce" <david at bierce.org> wrote:

> That is pretty much the state of things.  Here is a little experience from
> the solutions I've used.  In no particular order and from a phone.
>
> Nagios is a fantastic complex crontab that runs 100s of shell scripts and
> returns its little amounts of data at amazing speeds, until you try to
> scale it.  If you were thinking of using Nagios, https://www.icinga.org/
> is
> a compelling fork and has 20% less suck in the current version.
>
> http://sensuapp.org/ looks to be promising, just added support and
> integration for it into our products at work.  At the end of the day, it
> isn't much different than nagios, except it allows you to scale a bit
> better and lets you pipe the data and events between processes much
> easier.  It even lets you run Nagios checks...because like nagios...its a
> scaled cron.  Does have a few canned solutions for feeding metrics to
> graphite.
>
> opennms.org is a compelling solution, for network and network device
> monitoring only.  It falls flat on monitoring non network things.
>
> Zenoss, is easy to use and and has a webinterface, but it quite bloated and
> not very fast at performing checks at scale.  For small environments it is
> quite easy.
>
> For Paid solutions
>
> If you're an all microsoft shop, System Center is quite compelling, but you
> have to be all in on the entire Microsoft and Microsoft Partner stack.
>
> Hyperic was quite nice a few years ago, very good at monitoring services
> and parts of services, focused mainly on Java apps, but it had a lot of
> usefulness.
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