[Cialug] Monitoring?

[Jeff Chapin]

I'd second Icinga. In addition to fixing many of the irritating Nagios
bugs, it is not affiliated with the 'hostile takeover' of
nagios-plugins: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054340

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:42 PM, David Michael
<1.david.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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