Monitoring system recommendation

Raymond Burkholder ray at oneunified.net
Mon Jun 6 16:17:51 UTC 2016


> We are currently planning to upgrade our monitoring system (Opsview) due
> to scalability issues and I was wondering what do you recommend for
> monitoring
> 5000 hosts and 35000 services. We would like to use a monitoring system that

Another consideration is check_mk.  We use it in our shop.  The check_mk people wrapped a bunch of python around the Nagios notification engine.  No longer do you need to worry about the tedium of nagios config files, those are all built automatically from commands from a gui or from a single configuration file.

Check_mk has a benchmarking page which scales to more hosts than you specified:
https://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_checkmk_benchmarks.html

For an architecture diagram of how they use nagios for alerting, and python for scanning:
http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk.html

If an included agent isn't available, new ones can be written.  

We are quite happy with the solution.  We've replaced cricket, cacti, nagios, observium, and a little bit of smokeping with this almost all in one tool.




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