On 08/03/2010 05:14 AM, Derek J. Balling wrote: > We just found that Zabbix's "monitoring and alerting" state of affairs was > shite. > But we loved the graphing mechanisms and flexibility that it offered on that front... > it's "trending" system, if you like, was great. > > But hey, we could just install Nagios, it's ALSO got trending tools, we could > just > use those trending tools and have great monitoring! ... except that Nagios' trending > tools are like something an intern duct-taped onto the product after the fact and > aren't worth a damn.
We use the pnp4nagios addon for nagios - which I believe is the best of the current bunch of graphing add-ons. While the graphing is not as easy to customize as cacti or full-featured as zabbix, armed with a bit of rrdtool knowledge you can create some very good-looking graphs.
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