On Aug 2, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Simon Lyall wrote:
> Our current monitoring system is slated for replacement over the next few
> months. Currently Zabbix is the front-runner (especially since it
> includes graphing which we are very deficient in), do people know if it's
> a good fit for this sort of role?
After a long dark period of struggling with Zabbix, we came to the following
conclusions:
Zabbix is an awesome trending tool which tries to also do monitoring
and sucks badly at it
Nagios is an awesome monitoring tool which tries to also do trending
and sucks badly at it
And we opted for a "best of breed" strategy, letting "zabbix be zabbix" and be
awesome at trending and such, and letting Nagios do all of our monitoring and
alerting, and never the two shall meet.
Yes it means twice as much SNMP traffic for a bunch of metrics that are in the
join-set of "trend" and "monitor/alert", but it's well worth it, in my opinion.
Cheers,
D
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