Comments on: Trend Monitoring Suites http://www.andyd.net/2007/trend-monitoring-suites/ Andy Davidson\'s tech blog Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:27:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: tomahawk http://www.andyd.net/2007/trend-monitoring-suites/comment-page-1/#comment-29 tomahawk Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:05:54 +0000 http://www.andyd.net/index.php/2007/06/22/trend-monitoring-suites/#comment-29 I agree about Munin, but would also recommend taking a look at collectd (http://collectd.org). It's kind of a cross between Munin and Ganglia (no need for central server - data can be pushed to a multicast group or single host if you wish). It's designed to act as a collector - it can gather stats every 10 seconds which can make for some finely detailed graphs (very useful when you need to investigate small outages/blips). I agree about Munin, but would also recommend taking a look at collectd (http://collectd.org). It’s kind of a cross between Munin and Ganglia (no need for central server – data can be pushed to a multicast group or single host if you wish).

It’s designed to act as a collector – it can gather stats every 10 seconds which can make for some finely detailed graphs (very useful when you need to investigate small outages/blips).

]]> By: Jean-Marc Liotier http://www.andyd.net/2007/trend-monitoring-suites/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Jean-Marc Liotier Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:32:25 +0000 http://www.andyd.net/index.php/2007/06/22/trend-monitoring-suites/#comment-28 I am also a Cacti refugee, but my needs were much simpler than the ones described here so I chose Munin instead. Munin is extremely simple to deploy, and writing custom scripts is rather easy. It uses an agent separate from the graphing component, it supports SNMP and no MySQL is needed. Take a look at it if you don't need a system as full-featured as Zabbix. I am also a Cacti refugee, but my needs were much simpler than the ones described here so I chose Munin instead. Munin is extremely simple to deploy, and writing custom scripts is rather easy. It uses an agent separate from the graphing component, it supports SNMP and no MySQL is needed. Take a look at it if you don’t need a system as full-featured as Zabbix.

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