Tired of Nagios and Cacti? Try Zabbix. | literacy and subleties. The Blog of Ben Rockwood. 17 Dec '07 - 22:15 by benr With a new site comes new opportunity. When Joyent recently added a new facility I decided to look at new monitoring solutions. We previous were standardized on Sun X4100, Sun T1000's, and Sun X4500's with a network using Force10 and F5. This new site would replace the X4100's with Sun X4150's and Dell 2950's. Having largely avoided Dell in the past I took my time to get to know the system well and knowing that IPMI is far more utilized in that arena than with most Sun systems I was given the oppertunity to get a whole new appreciation for IPMI 2.0.
Armed with this new knowledge I wanted to take our monitoring much further than we had in the past to monitoring individual BMC sensors via IPMI. Zabbix quickly rose to the top of my list. Zabbix isn't pretty... Zabbix is agent based, you can choose to avoid this but you'll loose most of what makes Zabbix so great. In this case, the trigger is associated with my "Template_Joyent". I'm only grazing the basics here. OpenNMS. I Hate Nagios! « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog. Zabbix | Everything is a Freaking DNS problem. Matt Reid wants to know what we want in an Open Source MySQL monitoring solution ?
He is working on the second incarnation of Monolith and wants input from the MySQL community. Now for me the bigger question is if we want an isolated tool that runs stand alone, or a tool which we can integrate it in something we already have. To me there is a difference between a tool that I want to use to debug my environment, such as Mytop or MySQL Activity Report, in that case I need some tool that quickly installs with little dependencies and little impact. On the other side I want a tool that is constantly there, that tells me about trends and performance history. But there I don't want an isolated toool, I want something fully integrated where I can correlate different measurements from disk io, memory usage etc , that tool should also tell me about the things that go wrong. We did some research earlier this year to figure out the current state of Open Source monitoring tools.
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