[tlug] Server monitoring/graphing

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

Moin,

As probably most of you, I have been using mrtg for all my private machines
for "monitoring" or rather just graphing so I see how the system behaves
over a long time. I recently set up an NTP server and wanted to add that
into my "monitoring" and of course I hit the limitations of mrtg.

Now I am looking for something modern to replace mrtg. Of course, I could
build something like mrtg using rrdtool, but I am not very keen on building
these things by hand if there are ready to use solutions out there. I tried
to look at a few of the monitoring/graphing but all of them seem to be made
for monitoring hundreds machines at least. But I only care at moste about
a dozen machines, most of them "monitor" themselves, ie I don't have any
global data collection. So, the question is, is there any easy to use
monitoring tool out there that doesn't feel like a pangalactic space
cruiser for people who only want to see what's going on with their servers?


			Attila Kinali

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