[TriLUG] Open source software to monitor hundreds of VMs

[Scott Lambdin via TriLUG]

When you have a bunch of VM's like that, where is your source of truth for
what systems are up at a given time and should be monitored?

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Matt Pusateri via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

> ELK - Elastic Search Logstash Kibana as a project seems to be making it
> difficult to download/install unless you want to clone github. I'm
> wondering if their setting up for a more closed or thinly veiled open
> source model.
>
> I recommend Shinkin.io. Nagios like, integrates graphite, scales both
> horizontally and vertically. Handles multi data center. Can use a Nagios
> config. Has redundancy of services and failover. Has a little bit of a
> learning curve setting up, But nowhere near the nightmare of openNMS
>
> Matt P
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Sep 9, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Nikolas Everett via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm told Kibana/Elasticsearch + Logstash and/or
> Topbeat/Filebeat/Metricbeat
> > are a thing. They may not be the thing you want though.
> >
> > Nik
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Jonathan Mainguy via TriLUG <
> > trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Nagios is the biggest open source monitoring tool around I believe.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Ron Kelley via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Looking for some suggestions on Open Source software to monitor
> hundreds
> >>> of VMs and/or containers (99% Linux [Ubuntu/CentOS]).  Currently using
> >>> Cacti, but it is very tedious to setup a new VM.  Would like to get the
> >>> “typical” stats (CPU, RAM, HDD, Network, SWAP, etc).  GUI would be nice
> >> as
> >>> well as an API to add new VMs and extract data.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
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