Server Monitoring – world map

Zdeněk Cendra, 04.03.2010, 13:32, 987 views

Which server monitoring tool do you use?

On today market there are couple quality products. Let’s go to see the best ones, so good to install them on Linux server.

Server monitoring is important to ensure stability, speed and safety of each Linux server.

If you don’t use so far any load monitoring tool, we recommend to choose at least one of bellow mentioned products.

Free tools:

Nagios – famous tool for availability monitoring supporting also load monitoring. Installation is very complicated and service quite expensive, but great extensibilities.

Cacti – performace monitoring built on RRD supporting i.a. performance monitoring and traffic on switches on the basis of SNMP protocol.

Munin – simple general load monitoring tool for concrete servers. It does not support authorisation, more servers and advanced functions.

Zabbix – complex tool for server load monitoring and networks monitoring. Very difficult implementation, but with wide range of settings.

Hotsanic – simple load monitoring tool for concrete servers with no advanced functions. No more develoment of this SW.

Freemium server monitoring:

Bijk.com – complex server monitoring with free version up to 20 servers. Very simple installation, graphs update every 10 seconds, web administration, fitting for one or more servers, many graphs (CPU, Apache, mySQL, Traffic), graphs for more servers – f.e. load for group of servers in one graph.

Paid tool for server monitoring:

ScoutApp.com – good graphs, no supporting Debian Linux, for more servers high price – $100+/month.

ServerDensity.com – basic graphs, simple installation, good price, iPhone client, basic cloud support.

CloudKick.com – basic load graphs, supports known cloud providers, price from $100/month.

Circonus.com – currently just on invitation, basic graphs and trend forecast.

Hyperic.com – complex load monitoring tool, difficult implementation and higher price.

Which monitoring tool do YOU use and why?

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