Monitoring system recommendation

Mon Jun 6 16:00:20 UTC 2016

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016, at 09:18, Manuel Marín wrote:

>> 5000 hosts and 35000 services. We would like to use a monitoring
>> system that is compatible with the nagios plugin format, however we
>> are not sure if systems like Icinga/Shinken/Op5 are the way to go.

At that kind of scale, you need to take a serious look at moving away 
from the Nagios plugin model. Any model based primarily on forking
external processes is going to hold you back.

>> Is someone using systems like Op5 or Icinga2 for monitoring > 5000
>> hosts?

This kind of scale is easily achieved with OpenNMS with appropriate 
hardware and planning, largely because it does everything in-process. We 
do offer limited support for NRPE as a transitional mechanism. 
Disclosure: I get paid to work with OpenNMS in a consulting capacity.

>> Would you recommend commercial systems like Sevone, Zabbix, etc
>> instead of open source ones?

Zabbix is open source. I know some of their team and would recommend 
putting them on your list.

I also know a number of brilliant people who work for SevOne, but I 
don't know much about their product.

-jeff