Open Source Network Monitoring Tool

[wahmed]

Just curious what Network Monitoring tools being used by Proxmox community which are Open Source without per device license fees.
I tried several but want to know which is being used the most and community considers good enough. I know its hard to be "fully satisfied" with a single tool but "above avg. satisfied" is acceptable.

 

[mir]

I have tried Monit, Munin and Nagios. I have settled with Nagios since Nagios has the largest community and the most plugins.

 

[mo_]

Tried zabbix and nagios, stuck with nagios. well not nagios itself because it doesn't get updated at all, but rather icinga. nagios OMD (the OMD guys added their flavour to nagios) would be an alternative to icinga.
great thing is, it doesn't exactly matter which nagios implementation you use, you'll always be able to use ALL the "plugins" as in check binaries/scripts the community has come up with. And theres a nagios plugin for almost anything

 

[liska_]

I use centreon, which is in fact just nagios + web interface. And I added this plugin for proxmox https://github.com/dpiquet/pve-monitor

 

[udo]

Hi,
I started with nagios years ago (before use pve) and switched to icinga after icinga came out.

Udo

 

[shrek]

Hi, try Observium

 

[dswartz]

Hi,
I started with nagios years ago (before use pve) and switched to icinga after icinga came out.

Udo

Same here.

 

[wahmed]

Great tips guys! So far i have been using combinations of paid services to track my networks. Recently networks are increasing in size in some cases we added twice the devices. Since paid tools works based on number of devices, for obvious reason it is getting too expansive.
Based on the tips, Observium and Icinga seems promising right now. Nagios indeed is a "pain" to setup.

 

[mir]

Nagios indeed is a "pain" to setup.

True, but the number of plugins is unbeaten.

 

[wahmed]

True, but the number of plugins is unbeaten.

Since icinga is a fork of Nagios, will i be able to use all the Nagios plugin?

 

[ebiss]

I use centreon, which is in fact just nagios + web interface. And I added this plugin for proxmox https://github.com/dpiquet/pve-monitor

Thanks for share...

 

[spirit]

- shinken for service|hosts monitoring
- collectd + grafite + grafana for performance graphs

 

[ZeroHour]

Thanks for the shares all, I too am looking at options having used paid options like Server Density in the past.

 

[LAD]

+1 for Observium, and you can complete the setup with Smokeping for the latency

 

[mo_]

Since icinga is a fork of Nagios, will i be able to use all the Nagios plugin?

yes, that what I had said earlier and thats what the inciga guys have always ensured.

 

[ebiss]

- shinken for service|hosts monitoring
- collectd + grafite + grafana for performance graphs

Thanks for share ...

I'm using argus for hosts and service monitoring.
http://argus.tcp4me.com/features.html

 

[maca87]

Just curious what Network Monitoring tools being used by Proxmox community which are Open Source without per device license fees.
I tried several but want to know which is being used the most and community considers good enough. I know its hard to be "fully satisfied" with a single tool but "above avg. satisfied" is acceptable.

Hi, we use in my company PandoraFMS to monitoring all our network systems by SNMP or ICMP/TCP protocols, and then all our servers with its fabolous agents. I heard one of his webinar, which will come out in the next version for Windows. If you need more information about this tool visit the webpage. www pandorafms com.

King Regards

 

[ShaneCar]

Nagios has one of the largest ecosystem for plugins. Not sure if this is a plus for yo, but Nagios also has insightful reporting.

 

[AbundantMussel]

Used to use nagios for a few years, switched to icinga two years ago or so.

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[micush]

+1 for Observium. It is by far the easiest open source NMS to use.