[TriLUG] need url monitoring + pretty graphs

Matt Pusateri mpusateri at wickedtrails.com
Wed Dec 15 10:43:12 EST 2004


On Wed, December 15, 2004 8:02 am, Brandon Newport said:
> I recommend eithe Cacti or Nagios.
>
> -brandon
>
> Robert Ryals (rryals at tmio.com) wrote:
>>
>> Ryan Leathers wrote:
>>
>> >I'm running several instances or Apache in various locations.  I
>> have tools
>> >to manage these, but frankly, these are not boss friendly.  I need
>> a
>> >consolidated view of all my sites in one place, with the simple
>> indicators
>> >of up/down and response time when I knock on the front door of the
>> site.
>> >Boss types want this in a browsable or emailable graph with pretty
>> colors.
>> >
>> >Can anyone suggest an existing tool that monitors several URLs,
>> reports on
>> >response time, and draws a pretty graph of results for management
>> types to
>> >gaze at?
>> >
>> >I can imagine scripting this up and using mrtg to display the
>> results, but I
>> >know this has to have been done many many times before.  Any
>> examples to
>> >share?



I second Nagios,  You could put your boss in a specific admin group in
nagios and only let him see a subset of what you actually monitor. 
This way it wouldn't be info overload.  Also Nagios can alert you to
problems so you can fix them before the boss asks why is server X
down.

Matt




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