[TriLUG] Open source software to monitor hundreds of VMs

Robert Dale via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Mon Sep 12 10:51:10 EDT 2016


I don't always monitor my servers but when I do I use my users.


On Monday, September 12, 2016, Gary Weinreb via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> I've monitored dozens of hosts at a time over many years with Zabbix.  A
> mix of physical and virtual hosts. Very customizable results delivery and
> display.
>
> I like it a lot.  Can be implemented to be fairly "automatic" to add new
> hosts, especially if of a previously "configured-for-monitoring" type.  Can
> be scaled massively and can be made very robust.
>
>
>
> > On Sep 9, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Ron Kelley via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the quick replies.  Currently looking at Zabbix.  Seems like
> it might do what we need.
> >
> > Please, keep the suggestions coming!
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Sep 9, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Nikolas Everett <nik9000 at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>>
> >> 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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