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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:18:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b121cf27-d55a-2c85-586b-cc5ce2705c5f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c636b736-1d48-ee25-f62c-333d9722c3c1@monksofcool.net>

On 16/10/2017 18:10, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> On 16.10.2017 17:50, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
>> Nagios and I go way back, way way waaaaaay back. I now recommend it
>> never be used unless there really is no other option.
> 
> Have you tried Icinga 2 (*) yet? It originally started as a Nagios fork
> and uses plugins to monitor, but the rule-based configuration mechanism
> of Icinga 2 is IMO more powerful and easier than Nagios' mechanism. I've
> used both Nagios and Icinga for years, and I definitely prefer Icinga 2.
> 
> -Ralph
> 
> (*) https://www.icinga.com/products/icinga-2/
> 

Yes, I know Icinga as well. It fixes many of Nagios' shortcomings - the
first batch of commits after the fork took care of many of those - but
still suffers from all of Nagios' design faults.

In short, I'm not interested in going back to Nagios after a year's
migration to get away from it. Same for Icinga, Shinken, Sensu and all
the other many nagios forks out there. Also Zabbix.

My current monitoring is snmp-based, and all I need monit for is as a
very narrowly-defined single-purpose watchdog.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-16 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-16 12:11 [gentoo-user] monit and friends Alan McKinnon
2017-10-16 15:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-10-16 15:12   ` Alan McKinnon
2017-10-16 15:41     ` Mick
2017-10-16 15:50       ` Alan McKinnon
2017-10-16 16:10         ` Ralph Seichter
2017-10-16 16:18           ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2017-10-17  0:13         ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-10-18 13:45         ` skyclan

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