[ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

[Beddingfield, Allen]

I'm totally with you on Nagios.  We switched to Zabbix about a year ago, and I couldn't be happier with it.  Best of all - it is also free.
http://www.zabbix.com

Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jerald Sheets [questy at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 7:33 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Monitoring (Was "Todays trends")

On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:45 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> So the issue wasn't Nagios - it was the folks managing it.
>
> Nagios is a great tool and we use it in Production.



I'll bite.  Nobody better to discuss with than the ALE family…


So, I hate Nagios.  Can't express how much I dislike the product, the layout of the alerting, the lack of a comprehensive, easy to see and understand dashboard with easily managed/administered acknowledgements, mobile accessibility, automation, escalation paging… you name it.

Now, before you freak out, I know it's all in there, but I personally find it markedly difficult to find all this stuff in the way Nagios has decided to lay everything out.


Is this just a "me" thing?  Is it because my earliest and most often used monitoring stuff is from a "Big Brother" background?  (BB, Hobbit, Xymon, Foglight, Spotlight)


What's the general landscape of monitoring tools and utilities in use out there?


--Jerald



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