Monitoring Application of the Year

jeremy · 01-07-2009, 03:10 PM

What is your monitoring application of choice?

--jeremy

ncsuapex · 01-08-2009, 11:34 AM

I use several and all for different purposes.

I like nagios, mrtg, cacti, iptraf, darkstat. Id say the best(my fav) for overall server monitoring would be nagios. Its customizable, covers a lot of ground, can generate email/text alerts.

I like the graphs that cacti and mrtg provide.
I like the real time data that iptraf and darkstat provide

choogendyk · 01-09-2009, 01:38 PM

mon is not there!?

http://mon.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

or see my blog entry on mon

http://blogs.umass.edu/choogend/

sycamorex · 01-09-2009, 02:27 PM

I like this poll - it gives me the opportunity to check out some mon. apps that I haven't heard of before

Hitboxx · 01-09-2009, 04:10 PM

nTop.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 01-09-2009, 05:58 PM

Shock, Horror! Gkrellm shunned again

archtoad6 · 01-10-2009, 08:48 AM

I see mon has been added.

I may be showing my ignorance, but does Gkrellm not qualify?

jeremy · 01-10-2009, 10:59 AM

Gkrellm does not qualify. The issue was discussed last year in depth. Gkrellm is just too far outside the intended scope of "Monitoring" for this poll.

--jeremy

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 01-10-2009, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

Gkrellm does not qualify. The issue was discussed last year in depth. Gkrellm is just too far outside the intended scope of "Monitoring" for this poll.

--jeremy

I must have missed that discussion. Before commenting further, can you clarify the 'intended scope'?

vermaden · 01-10-2009, 11:08 AM

You are missing smokeping

jeremy · 01-10-2009, 11:11 AM

The poll name will be updated to Network Monitoring Application of the Year starting next year.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 01-10-2009, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

The poll name will be updated to Network Monitoring Application of the Year starting next year.

Ah ok.

uks · 01-12-2009, 05:36 AM

I agree with sycamorex , it has showed me a few other options.
One quick question. Are all of these tools free ? A fast check leads me to guess, if not the whole applicaiton atleast a part of it is free ?

GlennsPref · 01-15-2009, 01:42 AM

I use Gkrellm.

Simple light weight and dependable.

Regards Glenn

Uxinn · 01-15-2009, 07:35 AM

I use Hobbit, recently renamed to xymon because "hobbit" is registered to by some hobbit'ses out there..
Very simple to create custom monitoring tasks, quick and easy to setup.

http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/

It comes pre-packaged for debian/ubuntu

Regards,
Uxinn