Server monitoring and alerting software?

Question

What software does everyone use to monitor hardware? I know about nagios and cacti, but does anyone use any other software?

Answer 1

SolarWinds IPMonitor is pretty useful. A bit like cacti or nagios, but more peasing to the eye. Windows only, and not free (not even as in "free beer"), though. ;-)

Answer 2

I have used both mon and munin. I like munin because of its simplicity and flexibility.

Answer 3

http://www.zabbix.com/ is fairly good too - comparable to Nagios and Cacti at least.

Answer 4

OpenNMS is quite good, if you have a large number of servers and need to do very comprehensive monitoring.

Answer 5

My company just started using Nagios mainly to keep track of uptime. What are its difficients that you would look for another solution ? Is it scale or lack of monitoring capability ?

Answer 6

Consider using a service like Alertra (alertra.com) if you don't want to run the monitoring server yourself. We have been using this for about a year and have been very pleased with it.

Answer 7

We use Zenoss for monitoring our systems. We found it a lot easier to work with then OpenNMS.

Answer 8

I am currently working on such a system: http://www.scopeport.org/

Answer 9

We use NAGIOS for everything, and god on a lower level/within a rails application.

I'd be glad to give you more details if you gave us more details about what specifically you're looking for or trying to accomplish.