Comments on: 10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass

By: DavidV

DavidV — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:39:59 +0000

HI i apreciate all of your articles thanks…

By: alex web

alex web — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:55:07 +0000

good choice to use zibbix no doubt i use it http://www.miempresaenlinea.com and its great performance

By: Jaspal Singh

Jaspal Singh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:56:00 +0000

Nice article with list of free server & networking tools.
Thanks for sharing.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:19:24 +0000

Nice post, I always used zenoss but think that will give zebbix a try

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:01:55 +0000

Good stuff! Thanks for pointing out Monit. I like the simple layout.

Another hosted server/service monitoring solution to consider is Panopta. It’s not totally free, but it does kick ass. :)

By: akp982

akp982 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:11:09 +0000

Thanks :-)

Really nice article with some great software im going to give a try.

Cheers for sharing

By: Umar Draz

Umar Draz — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:50:16 +0000

Hi,

Nice article, for process management MONIT is great we can easily customized as per our requirements and the other end for graph management CACTI i think is better.

Thanks

Umar

By: Alex Peterson

Alex Peterson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:45:03 +0000

Great list. Definately will be using some of these.

By: Jason Dixon

Jason Dixon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:22:30 +0000

Hi Ben,

Interesting article. I find there are bits of each app that are useful, but overall they all suffer from the “built by techies for techies” stigma. Zenoss is probably the most user-friendly in this list, and I like some of the ideas that ObserverNMS has introduced. Unfortunately, they still suffer from some major usability issues (IMHO).

Not to sound like a marketing droid, but you might want to keep an eye on Circonus. Built by the same folks working on Reconnoiter, I think it’s going to shake up some of the ideas in the monitoring/trending/ECA arena. We’re accepting beta signups now, if you’d like to try it out when it goes private beta.

http://circonus.com/

Thanks,
Jason

By: Ryan Matte

Ryan Matte — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:34:37 +0000

I’ve been using Zenoss for almost a year now. It is very powerful. There are some types of monitoring info which I have had to write custom scripts to gather, but I am always impressed with just how easy it is to integrate custom scripts with Zenoss. The UI is very nice and a huge time saver (it is also in the process of getting a major overhaul to look and function even better). I suggest that you come take a look at Zenoss the new Zenoss community site: http://community.zenoss.org. Or stop by the IRC channel: irc.freenode.net – #zenoss