What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
Datadog, leftronic or Rackspace monitoring for hosted solutions.
Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios
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#12What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
Take a look at Zabbix, lots of features from the base package, no plug-ins needed, free: http://www.zabbix.com/
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#13What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
naemon is a fork of nagios 4.0 done by the developer that commited 95% of the Nagios codebase: http://naemon.github.io/
His "release" from being a core nagios developer is another interesting story, he talks about it some here (some nsfw language: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgbbyyNIiHc
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#14What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
Take a look at Zabbix, lots of features from the base package, no plug-ins needed, free: http://www.zabbix.com/
Zabbix is very good, at least since version 2.0.x which is the one I've used. Once you understand how it works, it's very easy to write agent scripts (plugins) and build templates for it.
It took about 3 months for me to build a monitoring solution from scratch with Zabbix for a little over 100 devices, with just a single vCPU VMware VM for both Zabbix and its MySQL database. Monitored devices included Windows, Linux and AIX machines, but also a couple of large UPSes and a few server rack PDUs.
This was my first contact with Zabbix and during this time I wrote dozens of agent scripts to monitor stuff ranging from DB2 and Microsoft Exchange clusters to physical disks and SAN LUNs.
It's one of a select few software packages that I can say that I really like. It works as expected and it's pretty extensible.
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#15What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
Very happy Sensu user for over a year now.
You can use nagios check plugins, but it's a completely new, and IMO much better designed code base.
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#16Blog post from Sam Kottler, the maintainer of nagios plugins in fedora/epel on the matter:
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#17What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
Observium is good for network monitoring: http://www.observium.org
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Take a look at Zabbix, lots of features from the base package, no plug-ins needed, free: http://www.zabbix.com/
Zabbix is very good, at least since version 2.0.x which is the one I've used. Once you understand how it works, it's very easy to write agent scripts (plugins) and build templates for it. It took about 3 months for me to build a monitoring solution from scratch with Zabbix for a little over 100 devices, with just a single vCPU VMware VM for both Zabbix and its MySQL database. Monitored devices included Windows, Linux…
Yep, we moved form Nagios to Zabbix once we crossed the ~300 devices as that is one of the main advantages for Zabbix: it scales pretty nice. Takes a bit to get to know how everything works and set it up correctly but it's a pretty good piece of monitoring software.
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#19What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
Very happy Sensu user for over a year now. You can use nagios check plugins, but it's a completely new, and IMO much better designed code base. http://sensuapp.com/
I believe it's http://sensuapp.org/
Getting a "Heroku | No such app" on the .com version...
Just in case anyone's confused (I was :-p )
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#20What alternatives to Nagios are out there? I've seen Icinga mentioned today, what else are people using?
What about http://cacti.net/ ?
With Weathermap plugin it is quite good thing for performance monitoring. THold and Monitor plugins are for availability monitoring and alerting. It scales very good with Boost plugin, I had 3000+ hosts, 60000+ datasources with total poll time within one minute.
Many prefer Cacti to Zabbix because the latter is clunky and confusing compared to Cacti's simple straightforward approach with plugins.
But I am actually wondering, how alive is Cacti now, because its releases are constantly postponed, and forum is not as alive as it used to be.