>>>> Can anyone recommend a method for monitoring system resource usage in >>>> a way that would allow me to correlate a rise in my web server's >>>> response time with the usage of a particular system resource if such a >>>> correlation exists? I don't need it to be 100% accurate, just >>>> accurate enough to be able to make the correlation with a reasonable >>>> degree of certainty. >>>> >>>> - Grant >>> >>> >>> http://munin-monitoring.org/ >> >> Looks very cool indeed! I am reading more about it now. Do you find >> it easy to set up and maintain? >> >> - Grant >> > > In my opinion it's very easy to setup. Basically you just merge it, > enable your plugins (via symlink), add munin-node to the runlevel and > make sure the munin cron job is enabled. Then just browse to > http://localhost/munin > > There's also a entry on the gentoo wiki: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Munin
Agreed! Although getting apache, mysql, and nginx plugins fully working is proving to be a little trickier. To get those going it's necessary to edit /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node as well as some apache and nginx config. Still working on getting it all 100%. - Grant
