Monitoring (both inside/outside) - What Do You Use?

[raindog308]

I asked about this some time ago, but the landscape changes so fast.

 

What do you use for monitoring, where monitoring is both:

 

1. from the outside - such as ping, checking http, etc.  There are a million products and external services (I like NodePing) that do this.

2. from the inside - getting status from the box from inside, like "did MySQL go down" or "was there a RAID event"

 

 

[Ruchirablog]

NewRelic for PHP+Server monitoring.  site 24x7 + pingdom for ping. recently started using nodequery.com on one of my projects 

 

[WelltodoInformalCattle]

For checking whether my servers are up/down I simply stick to StatusCake. Haven't really implemented anything for the second option. 

 

[blergh]

Cacti/observium/munin/prtg.

 

[eva2000]

• nodeping, uptime robot, copperegg and dnsmadeeasy monitoring (dns failover)
• cacti and munin

 

[bauhaus]

Internal: Munin. External: pingdom.

 

[ocitysolutions]

We use Observium (licensed version) for most of our internal stuff. We've also been testing PingMax for a developer friend of ours for simple uptime tracking so we have something to show [potential] clients.

 

[ed@cwings]

-external - uptime robot or observium


-internal - opennms


- uptime robot - extra fast to deploy, extra easy to use, very limited


- observium - fast deploy, easy to use, fancy graphs, limited functions


- opennms - slower deploy , pain, pain, pain, but functionality make up for it.

 

[HalfEatenPie]

-external - uptime robot or observium


-internal - opennms


- uptime robot - extra fast to deploy, extra easy to use, very limited


- observium - fast deploy, easy to use, fancy graphs, limited functions


- opennms - slower deploy , pain, pain, pain, but functionality make up for it.

Can you stress the functionality of Opennms? (or moreover what's so great about it).

I looked into it a while back (in addition to Zabbix, Munin, Nagios, etc.) but instead went with plain old SNMP monitoring (Observium).  What does Opennms do better than Observium?  

Uptimerobot (if I recall) is a simple ping monitoring service , so yeah very highly limited.  

 

[splitice]

external - zabbix (bulk checks) + uptimerobot (http resources)

internal - zabbix + hopefully kibana soon

 

[catatonic]

ossec for certain things 

 

[tonyg]

Xymon (used to be Hobbit)

Monit

Logcheck (with a central log server)

 

[QuatroVPS]

Zabbix is a good option