[Cialug] Monitoring?

[David Michael]

Zabbix isn't a bad solution. It has its quirks but I like it better than
nagios.
On Jan 25, 2015 3:25 PM, "David Champion" <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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