Ask HN: How do you monitor your services?

Posted by netherben on Sunday January 25, 2009 @12:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I like http://www.cacti.net/, what else do people use?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor your services? by RobGR on Sunday January 25, 2009 @01:24AM (#448803)

I used nagios (still do) but I found it frustrating and complecated to set up.

I started writing little one-off perl scripts that send an email for the alert.

However, managing and monitoring the email folders is tedious and taking up too much time.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor your services? by babul on Sunday January 25, 2009 @01:25AM (#448804)

The name change was due to trademark issues (http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/11/msg00123.html) ...not sure Gandalf would aprrove, but it keeps lawyers happy.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor your services? by brianr on Sunday January 25, 2009 @12:55AM (#448768)

Nagios and Cacti.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor your services? by babul on Sunday January 25, 2009 @01:31AM (#448809)

Used to use Big Brother.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you monitor your services? by aaroneous on Sunday January 25, 2009 @04:14AM (#448957)

munin and pingdom.com

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