Monitoring with SaltStack VS Zabbix
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I am currently using PRTG for monitoring and alerting. It works very well. I especially like the push alerts to the Android app, as they have saved me countless times over the past 6 years. How well does the alerting work in Zabbix and also in Salt and sodium?
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@flaxking said in Monitoring with SaltStack VS Zabbix:
@dyasny said in Monitoring with SaltStack VS Zabbix:
@flaxking You mean actual graphs and reports on stats gathered over time? Grafana is all about that
I mean like if you wanted to report on all the different OSes you have running - which I didn't think was possible using Prometheus + Grafana without determining a numeric value for each OS, but it looks like I'm wrong about that.
The only way I can think of doing that is having each OS type in a different job. At least it used to be true that Prometheus doesn't support string metrics. I hadn't seen anything where they've changed that.
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@flaxking yup, all that is easily possible
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@stacksofplates said in Monitoring with SaltStack VS Zabbix:
@flaxking said in Monitoring with SaltStack VS Zabbix:
@dyasny said in Monitoring with SaltStack VS Zabbix:
@flaxking You mean actual graphs and reports on stats gathered over time? Grafana is all about that
I mean like if you wanted to report on all the different OSes you have running - which I didn't think was possible using Prometheus + Grafana without determining a numeric value for each OS, but it looks like I'm wrong about that.
The only way I can think of doing that is having each OS type in a different job. At least it used to be true that Prometheus doesn't support string metrics. I hadn't seen anything where they've changed that.
That's how we did it.
