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
