Re: Monitoring / trending tools

On 04/29, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote: = Munin = http://munin-monitoring.org/ Mostly meant for trending, though you can use the limits part to notify on limits. == Pros == * Easy to deploy * Good puppet module available at https://github.com/duritong/puppet-munin == Cons == * Hard to get custom graphs = Nagios = http://nagios.org/ Monitoring tool, with lots of plugins and very widely used. == Pros == * Lots of plugins * Lots of users * Everyone has some knowledge * Also has some puppet modules (even from puppetlabs) == Cons == * Relatively complex to setup and maintain * The ui is not as good as it could be = Icinga = http://icinga.org/ Nagios fork == Pros == * All the nagios plus: * Better ui * Direct nagios configuration support (not sure if relevant here though) == Cons == * Relatively complex to set up = Zabbix = http://www.zabbix.com/ Never used it, anyone? Graphs and Monitoring == Pros == * All in one == Cons == = Ganglia = http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/ Graphing tool for large clusters == Pros == * Really scalable * Comes with most used metrics by default (memory/cpu/...) == Cons == * Not so easy to setup * Difficult to generate custom graphs = Graphite = http://graphite.wikidot.com/ More Graphing == Pros == * Easy to add new metrics * Really nice interface (easy to create custom graphs, zooms, * dasboards...) == Cons == * Not so straight-forward to set up * Might use more resources (dynamically generated graphs) = pnp4nagios = http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/start Graphing plugin for nagios == Pros == * Integrated with nagios, so it will use nagios/icinga checks for data collection == Cons == * Hard to make custom graphs = Cacti = http://www.cacti.net/ Graphing tool == Pros == * Really configurable, has a lot of options (A LOT) * That makes it hard to setup too == Cons == Also rrd based, unable to create graphs dynamically Should we open an etherpad with that info? -- David Caro Red Hat Czech s.r.o. Continuous Integration Engineer - EMEA ENG Virtualization R&D Tel.: +420 532 294 605 Email: dcaro(a)redhat.com Web: www.cz.redhat.com Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic RHT Global #: 82-62605