Comments on: Top 5 Best System Monitoring Tools

By: Scott Nolan

Scott Nolan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:57:38 +0000

I am smitten with Xymon (aka Hobbit, aka Big Brother) – they really are extensions of each other… so they are pretty interchangeable.

I liked MicroMuse’s commercial Netcool/Omnibus product – but that was before the IBM/Tivoli buyout and ruination.

Nagios, ZenOSS, Ground Works, Cacti are all good; and have reasonable learning curve.

Zabbix is hard as hell to get really meaningful documentation for.

By: GamBit

GamBit — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:17:58 +0000

I have worked with Nagios an Cacti for years.
I also have active developed some little things for cacti.

After all i prefer Zenoss…

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By: warren

warren — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:23:20 +0000

I’m surprised so few votes overall were cast – from the mailign lists I personally subscribe to, I would’ve expected a) many more votes and b) OpenNMS to rank substantially higher

By: Mark Hinkle

Mark Hinkle — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:31:00 +0000

I think Zenoss is worth mentioning here. It’s an open source (GPLv2) monitoring application that can monitor servers, networks and apps. It’s one of the most active projects on Sourceforge(https://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss/) and incorporates RRDTool. It also supports execution of Nagios plugins. Definitely worth a look if you need both availability and performance monitoring. Plus it autodiscovers devices so no more manually updating config files.

By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:45:46 +0000

For those who are interested, here is the list of all system monitoring tools mentioned by users along with the votes.

Following tools received more than 1 vote:

Nagios 64
Cacti 9
top 6
Zabbix 5
Munin 3
Centreon 3
Big Brother 3
Groundworks 3
conky 3
OpenNMS 2
htop 2
gkrelm 2

Following tools received only one vote:

BitDefender Total Security 1
Azul RTPM 1
RTO Pinpoint for Windows 1
Solarwind Orion 1
Network monitor 1
Pandora FMS 1
OPSview (Using Nagios) 1
glance (HP and HP-UX) 1
ntop 1
Nagiosgraph 1
icinga 1
Ganglia 1
Monit 1
Monitorix 1
strace 1
NetDisco 1
Dynatrace 1
Hobbit 1
lm_sensors 1
sar 1
tcpdump 1
netlogger 1
history 1
XYMON 1
uptime 1
ossim 1
SMARTS 1
rrdtool 1

By: lappol90

lappol90 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:47:26 +0000

I thought Cacti was the best.I am really surprised at this result.

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:13:52 +0000

HEHE, no Prob Net Diva and I will definately have a look at the new 6.0

Sam, definitaley try Groundwork, after resolving dependancies (I haven’t done the install in a while, but if memory serves there aren’t major dependancies to solve) the install is very straight foward and the rest is done from a webinterface.