Monitoring Systems
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I have heard and read up on several monitoring systems. Zabbix, Nagios (including FAN), prtg, munin, etc. I have never been the one to set one up. So guess what I am now in that position. I will have three Citrix XenServer hosts to monitor and various Linux VMs of all ilk to monitor. Plus Ubiquiti networking gear. What is the best system to learn and use? I know this maybe somewhat subjective but I really don't know the strengths and weaknesses of these platforms other than what I have googled and read but I am looking for advice from people who have used these.
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Zabbix and Zenoss are the ones towards which I lean. Zabbix is what we use currently at @NTG.
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@scottalanmiller what's the difference between the two?
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Not very much
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No mention of the SW monitor?
Lol... J/k
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I'm not a fan of Nagios. It's a time singularity unless you work with it.
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@Tim_G said in Monitoring Systems:
I'm not a fan of Nagios. It's a time singularity unless you work with it.
Same here.
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Nagios is a great tool, as are most of the ones you mentioned.
All monitoring tools take a lot of setup time though. So taking the time now to pick one you seriously like is a very good idea.
I have used PRTG found that to do everything I really wanted, the paid product would have been the best choice.
I tried to setup Nagios and came to the same conclusion as @Tim_G.
I have a Zabbix instance running at a client but I have done very little setup with it. It is a very solid tool for the little time I put in it. I think with only a little more education time I can get it set up well.
That is the limit of my recommendations on these.
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I've been using Prometheus and Grafana recently. However if you have Windows systems that need monitored the node exporter isnt going to help you, you'd have to write something of your own. That said it's fast and light. Nah iOS is powerful but kind of legacy. Even a FAN install is pretty time consuming.
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Alert emails aren't that pretty, but who really needs them to be?
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@stacksofplates said in Monitoring Systems:
I've been using Prometheus and Grafana recently. However if you have Windows systems that need monitored the node exporter isnt going to help you, you'd have to write something of your own. That said it's fast and light. Nah iOS is powerful but kind of legacy. Even a FAN install is pretty time consuming.
I love Grafana.
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@scottalanmiller I was going to come in here and say how often Grafana is.
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@coliver said in Monitoring Systems:
@scottalanmiller I was going to come in here and say how often Grafana is.
Yeah, Grafana is all the time.
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I prefer Zabbix over all of the other ones. Zabbix does have agents for Windows, Linux and others (I'm not sure how / if the other ones mentioned support Windows).
It will also monitor SNMP devices as well (Switches, firewalls, etc).
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@scottalanmiller said in Monitoring Systems:
@coliver said in Monitoring Systems:
@scottalanmiller I was going to come in here and say how often Grafana is.
Yeah, Grafana is all the time.
I need to stop posting from mobile... But yes grafana is all the time.
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@dafyre said in Monitoring Systems:
I prefer Zabbix over all of the other ones. Zabbix does have agents for Windows, Linux and others (I'm not sure how / if the other ones mentioned support Windows).
It will also monitor SNMP devices as well (Switches, firewalls, etc).
Nagios does. The node exporter for Prometheus doesn't.
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Grafana is pretty cool looking.
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I like Prtg, free editon allow 100 sensors, enough for a SMB
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@JaredBusch said in Monitoring Systems:
I have a Zabbix instance running at a client but I have done very little setup with it. It is a very solid tool for the little time I put in it. I think with only a little more education time I can get it set up well.
Same here we have a simple zabbix install here, mainly pings to see if things are up. But I plan (once I've moved some VMs around and sorted my hosts) to reinstall and explore it's full potential
