Kris Buytaert and Tom De Cooman have posted the slides to their OLS 2008 talk: “Systems Monitoring Shootout”.
For anyone evaluating monitoring solutions, it is a great read. They’ve obviously done a lot of research and if nothing else highlight a huge bunch of issues and topics you would want to consider when selecting a product.
They start out with seven contenders:
Munin seems to us a curious omission.
A quick overview of each follows, before they pick a short-list of four:
- Hyperic HQ
- Nagios
- Zabbix
- Zenoss
Sadly, they don’t seem to be able to declare a winner — consultants eh ;)
They do give a huge number of pros, cons and points to consider.
Really useful stuff.
Thnx for the review.
Mind that you can still vote for your favourite tool !
http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/node/684