[ale] [EXTERNAL] Re: Monitoring Solutions

[Allen Beddingfield]

Nagios is a steep learning curve if you have non-Unixy people or inexperienced people involved.
All but really advanced configs can be 100% done in the web ui in Zabbix.
Allen B.

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From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 1:00 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ale] Monitoring Solutions

Being old doesn't automatically make something bad (or good). What are
your specific complaints about it? If it's not being maintained, that's
a disadvantage, but you said "you don't know how much development".

SteveT

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 07:58:29 -0500
Scott McBrien via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Woah, Big Brother.  Nice 1997/8 throwback!  Mmmm, Perl.
>
> Nagios is still in use a lot of places and has a lot of plugins.  But
> it’s a bit dated for UI, and I don’t know how much development is
> still going on it.  I’d check out Zabbix.
>
> -STM
>
> > On Feb 24, 2021, at 7:47 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >
> > Nagios, prometheus & grafana. The kewl kidz use grafana for plots
> > and alerts and prometheus for collection. Good combo for making
> > custom dashboards. "Back in the day" I used BigBrother. It got
> > bought out and went closed source and vanished. The open source
> > replacement was big sister.
> >> On February 24, 2021 4:08:14 AM EST, Leam Hall via Ale
> >> <ale at ale.org> wrote: Working on my career skills, and I need to
> >> add a monitoring solution. Is Nagios still the first choice in
> >> open source options? I need to learn server, network, and
> >> application monitoring to beef up a challenge area in my Site
> >> Reliability Engineering skill set.
> >>
> >> Happy Wednesday!
> >>
> >> Leam
> >
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