I echo that most tools don't do all things well, and the biggest thing is to figure out what datapoints you want to trend/alert on instead of getting caught up on tool selection. In general, once you know what you're actually trying to alert on, the tool selection gets really simple.
I use the following. * Check_MK for traditional infrastructure both server and switch. It's a nagios derivative. easy to test out using OMD. It also has a real reasonable support contract system. * Boundary for cloud network monitoring (10 free nodes, go play with it, you'll be happy). * Logstash + Kibana + Graphite/statsd + Graphana for anything cloud based. I've been playing with packet beat a bit too, which is a boundary work a like that backs into elastic search. Pretty nice stack if you already have an elastic search cluster for logstash. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > 1) Most of the all in one things don't do all the things well. > 2) Nagios and derivatives do alerting very well. It's usually the right > choice for that part. > 3) Nagios doesn't do time based monitoring/graphing well. Most of it is > monitoring itself. > 4) There are lots of monitoring tools. I've used Cacti, Zabbix, MRTG, > BigBrother, munin. Find one that monitors what you want monitoring. > 5) If you don't pool too often/install too many agents on the clients, you > might want a combo. > 6) Setup a central syslog server & comb through that too (this is one of > the combo things). I've used swatch to do a continuous tail -f | filter in > a previous job that worked well but took awhile to setup. I'd love to hear > about other tools. I've heard of splunk ($), logstash, loggly. > > > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com > > wrote: > >> Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at >> work; _vaguely_ familiar with nagios and zabbix.... >> >> What do you guys generally find preferable, and why? >> >> Nagios? Zabbix? Something else? >> >> -- >> "'tis an ill wind that blows no minds." >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > -- * Patrick **Flaherty *| * w:* 978 983 6597 *e:* patrick.flahe...@weather.com
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