On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Matt Lawrence wrote: > I need to deploy some sort of performance monitoring tools across a few > hundred systems. In addition to the usual system performance stats, I > would like to find a set of tools that will easily allow me to collect and > display various application level information. These are systems doing > lots of real time transaction processing, so being able to see the graphs > of what the applications are doing in sync with the system graphs would be > a very good thing. > > The management structure here is that I am on the sysadmin team which does > not do anything with the applications. So, being able to integrate the > data collection will make my life easier and make the application support > folks happier.
one thing that you need to think about is what you mean by 'monitoring', there are two branches, and usually tools that do one well don't do the other as well. the first branch is problem detection. This is checking if something is out of spec and alerting on it. Nagios is a very popular tool for this branch this includes doing things like a df to see if your disk is full past a threshold, or doing a http request to your application to see if it responds with the correct page (and/or responds within the allowed deadline) the second brand is trending/historical data This is recording data points and (usually) generating graphs of the data for analysis. rrdtool (the engine that powers MRTG) is a really good tool for this. David Lang _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
