[TriLUG] Open source software to monitor hundreds of VMs

[Sean Korb via TriLUG]

+1 on Check-MK.  Nagios based but oh my!  It is both thorough and
pretty!  Easier to maintain that straight Nagios and if something goes
wrong there is some hope you can take it apart and put it together
again.  Zabbix is good if you really hate building graphing tools and
I like the "stacked" options for graphs especially for compute
clusters.

sean



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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