Re: RRDtool & monit

[Vincent Rivellino]

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I'm not sure this is something that belongs in monit.  Why reinvent the
wheel?  Checkout munin: http://munin.projects.linpro.no/

I use it on most of my systems and have been fairly satisfied.


Regards,
Vince


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On Fri, June 23, 2006 14:39, Mike Jackson wrote:
>> I'm using monit for all system processes on all the servers I run, it
>> works wonderfully, dutifully notifying me that it has prevented the  sky
>>  from falling.
>>
>> It has occured to me that it would be VERY VERY nice to have monit
>> also collect performance data and write RRD databases, since it is
>> constantly running and checking processes. The most interesting
>> performance data for me is system load an HTTP response times on
>> localhost (I want to know if it is taking 10 seconds for apache to
>> respond), however I'm sure it would be trivial to collect other data  as
>> well. Even better if that information was exposed in the monit  HTTP
>> interface. I would be happy to donate an interface design for  that,
>> btw.
>>
>> Self monitoring and self healing machines = sexy ;)
>>
>
> ooh, RRD data from monit? That's a swell idea. I haven't used any
> RRD-graphing tools yet, but I've been looking at a few and this would be
> the thing that would make me switch away from plain ol' MRTG forever!


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