Ryan Leathers wrote:
The best solution I know off-hand for this would be a combination of Nagios and RRDtool via something like APAN or one of the many other Nagios -> RRDtool interfaces available here: http://www.nagios.org/download/extras.php If you're already running Nagios, you're in good shape. If you're not, you might want to look into integrating something similar for performance monitoring into your regular uptime monitoring package (OpenNMS, BB, etc). If your backend doesn't easily support this, this might be a great time to change it. :)I'm running several instances or Apache in various locations. I have tools to manage these, but frankly, these are not boss friendly. I need a consolidated view of all my sites in one place, with the simple indicators of up/down and response time when I knock on the front door of the site. Boss types want this in a browsable or emailable graph with pretty colors.
Can anyone suggest an existing tool that monitors several URLs, reports on response time, and draws a pretty graph of results for management types to gaze at?
I can imagine scripting this up and using mrtg to display the results, but I
know this has to have been done many many times before. Any examples to
share?
Another option separate from your uptime monitoring solution would be something like vanilla MRTG using a few scripts to pull the data you need. These types of scripts are easily googled for - some of the ones I've used in the past are the MRTG-PME (Performance Monitoring Extensions) which allow you to easily can results from load, disk usage, number of running processes, etc into MRTG graphs. They are conveniently available for Solaris, Linux, and BSD. You might also investigate something like smokeping (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/ - from the author of RRDtool) if you're more concerned about network latency than service latency.
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