[BBLISA] Monitoring survey

[Aaron Macks]

We use nagios for alerting/threshold checks and cacti for
trending/graphing.  Neither are perfect, but they get the job done well
enough.  We've got a pile of custom plugins for nagios to check specific
functions of sites, but those have been collected over the years, so
we've got something of a sunk cost there.

For cacti, one of the things I find very useful is the JVM internals
monitoring, lets you track things like GC time and permgen space.

In AWS, there's strong pressure to move to "their" way of doing things,
which in this case is cloudwatch.  We've resisted so far, but may start
going that way...somehow
Aaron

On 2/3/16 6:12 PM, John Miller wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> We're currently on the market for some new monitoring software --
> Hyperic isn't keeping up well with the times.  We're also using
> SolarWinds for the network side of things.  Primarily we're looking
> for server/app monitoring, but consolidating things into a single tool
> might also make sense.  We're running a mix of local VMs (VMware and
> XenServer) as well as EC2 instances, ELB instances, and Route 53 for
> our DNS.
> 
> Before I start demoing 20-odd different products, I thought I'd ping
> the group: what are you all using for monitoring?  Are you happy with
> it?  What would you do differently if you had to stand up a new
> monitoring solution?
> 
> John
> 

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