[PLUG] System load/utilization monitoring

Tim Bruce - PLUG timb at tbruce.com
Thu Jul 26 02:35:26 UTC 2012


On Wed, July 25, 2012 17:43, Brian Martin wrote:
> I've always used SNMP/MRTG to capture and present system performance
> information (NIC utilization, CPU load, memory load, paging, disk wait
> time,
> etc.).  These are "just OK" in my book.  I find MRTG in particular finicky
> and unnecessarily complex to set up.  Not hard, just a lot of nuisances.
> I
> know there must be better, widely available packages that aren't so heavy
> they distort the numbers significantly or a hassle to install.  I don't
> need
> a lot of super features, just the basics of how is the system running and
> what are the trends.   So, what are all you cool kids out there (and
> everyone else) using for this in modern times?
>
>                     -Brian
>
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While it didn't meet my needs, I found that Munin was pretty good for
setting up and displaying data.  My biggest problem was it collected (nad
stored in rrd) data on a 5 minute intervals.  I needed something with a
little more granularity.

I've also looked at Ganglia, and it seemed a lot better in some regards,
but I had some issues on a non-flat network (multiple VLANs) that I didn't
take a lot of time to investigate.

Both have a variety of plug-ins for various things and were fairly easy to
install and use.  And both had ways to add your own data into the system
fairly easily.

Tim
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