[TriLUG] Open source software to monitor hundreds of VMs

[Aaron Joyner via TriLUG]

On the open source front, I'd recommend checking out Prometheus (
https://prometheus.io/) -- it's as close as you can get to Borgmon.  I
haven't used it personally for anything, but if I were in your shoes it's
what I'd try.  There are lots of write-ups about it online, but as a start
here's the 16 minute lightning talk by Brain Brazil, the Founder, giving
the overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwRmXqXKGtk

Aaron S. Joyner


On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Matt Pusateri via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> The one think I didn’t like about Zenoss, was that it stores data in an
> embedded database that’s hard to backup and deal with.  Upgrades were a
> pain.  Simple UI, but a pain to manage long term.
>
> Also I’d be remiss if I didn’t give you the Monitoring Sucks github page
> would tracks a bunch of monitoring software. https://github.com/
> monitoringsucks/
>
>
> One thing you probably do want is a script that monitors your vm’s and
> fixes the parent links. This way when vm’s migrate hosts, your network map
> stays accurate.
>
>
> Matt P.
>
> > On Sep 10, 2016, at 9:43 PM, David Brain via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Just throwing in another option - Zenoss https://www.zenoss.org/ -
> > have used it in the past pretty simple to get up and running.
> >
> > David.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Craig Cook 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> For VM monitoring I recommend Check_mk RAW.  Configuring Nagios is
> *painful*.  Check_mk uses nagios as a backend and makes configuring it
> easy.  Includes integrated RRD graphs and other features.  Also has an API.
> >> There are plugins available to send metrics to other engines, e.g.
> graphite and friends.
> >> Craig
> >>
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