[TriLUG] need url monitoring + pretty graphs

[Brandon Newport]

Another idea..various users in the Charlotte LUG have submitted their favorite
monitoring software packages.  You can go to www.charlug.org and click
weblinks and then click Monitoring and see what other people are using or are
interested in.

-brandon



Aaron S. Joyner (aaron at joyner.ws) wrote:
>
> Ryan Leathers wrote:
>
> >I'm running several instances or Apache in various locations.  I have tools
> >to manage these, but frankly, these are not boss friendly.  I need a
> >consolidated view of all my sites in one place, with the simple indicators
> >of up/down and response time when I knock on the front door of the site.
> >Boss types want this in a browsable or emailable graph with pretty colors.
> >
> >Can anyone suggest an existing tool that monitors several URLs, reports on
> >response time, and draws a pretty graph of results for management types to
> >gaze at?
> >
> >I can imagine scripting this up and using mrtg to display the results, but I
> >know this has to have been done many many times before.  Any examples to
> >share?
> >
> >
> The best solution I know off-hand for this would be a combination of
> Nagios and RRDtool via something like APAN or one of the many other
> Nagios -> RRDtool interfaces available here:
> http://www.nagios.org/download/extras.php  If you're already running
> Nagios, you're in good shape.  If you're not, you might want to look
> into integrating something similar for performance monitoring into your
> regular uptime monitoring package (OpenNMS, BB, etc).  If your backend
> doesn't easily support this, this might be a great time to change it.  :)
>
> Another option separate from your uptime monitoring solution would be
> something like vanilla MRTG using a few scripts to pull the data you
> need.  These types of scripts are easily googled for - some of the ones
> I've used in the past are the MRTG-PME (Performance Monitoring
> Extensions) which allow you to easily can results from load, disk usage,
> number of running processes, etc into MRTG graphs.  They are
> conveniently available for Solaris, Linux, and BSD.  You might also
> investigate something like smokeping
> (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/ - from the author
> of RRDtool) if you're more concerned about network latency than service
> latency.
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
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