Network & system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?

[Tom Buskey]

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 <rozzin at 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?
>
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