On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:46:11AM +0100, Tom Wilcox wrote:
> On 17/06/2010 22:41, Greg Smith wrote:
>> Tom Wilcox wrote:
>>> Any suggestions for good monitoring software for linux?
>>
>> By monitoring, do you mean for alerting purposes or for graphing purposes?
>> Nagios is the only reasonable choice for the former, while doing at best
>> a mediocre job at the latter. For the later, I've found that Munin does a
>> good job of monitoring Linux and PostgreSQL in its out of the box
>> configuration, in terms of providing useful activity graphs. And you can
>> get it to play nice with Nagios.
>>
> Thanks Greg. Ill check Munin and Nagios out. It is very much for graphing
> purposes. I would like to be able to perform objective,
> platform-independent style performance comparisons.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
Zabbix-1.8+ is also worth taking a look at and it can run off our
favorite database. It allows for some very flexible monitoring and
trending data collection.
Regards,
Ken