I'm surprised no one has mentioned Cacti yet. I'm using it to great success. I had to install a few plugins to help it scale to my semi-large network, but it's been great and extremely configurable. I even wrote some custom python data sources for graphing esoteric non-snmp-available data sources.
On Wednesday, April 14, 2010, apostolos pantazis <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a good point David; I suppose with some custom code writing you > may be able to aggregate some of the data in a form that makes sense > but strictly speaking out of the box likely would not do. > > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> How would splunk monitor performance? it 'just' imports logs and lets you >> search/report on them. >> >> David Lang >> >> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, apostolos pantazis wrote: >> >>> Splunk would be my choice. I also Like Sarcheck but I am not sure it >>> would fulfill all your requirements. >>> >>> Slunk also scales quite nicely. >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I have recently started a new job, that's why I'm asking questions here. >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> I'm comfortable programming in C, Ruby & Perl, so writing additional code >>>> to support monitoring is not a big worry. >>>> >>>> -- Matt >>>> It's not what I know that counts. >>>> It's what I can remember in time to use. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- Dan _______________________________________________ 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/
