[CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Sun Jun 20 09:20:08 UTC 2010
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:24:41PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/19/2010 09:39 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
> > It is very responsive. in forums, mailing lists, bugzilla, etc.
> >
>
> I can offer some insight into this.
>
> We recently moved a 150 node network from cacti / nagios / monit to
> Zabbix; Its been an exceptional mixed bag. The API is extremely basic,
> and does not work as documented - a fact that the developers are aware
> of but dont seem keen on moving it forward. Which has the affect that
> everything on the management side ends up being point and click on a web
> interface ~ massive waste of time and counter productive.
>
Care to talk a bit more about this? What do you need more?
Just trying to understand the limitations..
> Not being able
> to version control the config changes brings back memories of 1990's!
> Secondly, there are very fundamental issues in zabbix, like not being
> able to run counters for high throughput network interfaces.
>
Wasn't the 64bit counter fixed/added already?
-- Pasi
> And not
> being very efficient with its data store ( 150 machines of ours are
> generating 230MB of data per day. We are expecting to turn the year with
> over 130GB of data in the mysql db. At which point we go back into only
> storing trend data. Then there is the manic process of creating active
> tests and inter machine or location dependencies.
>
> Just to be clear - I'm not saying its a bad system; its usable and easy
> to deploy. There are places where it will fit in well,specially if you
> have a small client load ( maybe 40 machine instances or less ). If you
> don't like running client side agents, pass on zabbix.
>
> btw, we considered moving to zabbix for *.centos.org as well and did an
> evaluation in Apr 2009 and it just did not scale up for us. On the other
> hand the Fedora infrastructure guys are running it. And from what I
> hear, they are quite happy with things.
>
> - KB
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