Ask HN: How do you monitor your services?
I like http://www.cacti.net/, what else do people use?
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I used nagios (still do) but I found it frustrating and complecated to set up.
I started writing little one-off perl scripts that send an email for the alert.
However, managing and monitoring the email folders is tedious and taking up too much time.
I started writing little one-off perl scripts that send an email for the alert.
However, managing and monitoring the email folders is tedious and taking up too much time.
xymon/hobbit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon)
The name change was due to trademark issues (http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/11/msg00123.html) ...not sure Gandalf would aprrove, but it keeps lawyers happy.
The name change was due to trademark issues (http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/11/msg00123.html) ...not sure Gandalf would aprrove, but it keeps lawyers happy.
Nagios and Cacti.
Used to use Big Brother.
munin and pingdom.com