Performance Monitoring in Nagios

[Voon, Ton]

The latest release of nagiosplug (1.4alpha) includes more performance data,
but is currently in a proprietary format. The plan is to create a tool which
can then extract the perfdata and draw graphs, but that part has not been
done yet.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Elliott [mailto:selliott at covarity.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:04 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Performance Monitoring in Nagios
> 
> 
> Again, the prerequisite information: nagios 1.1, plug-ins 
> 1.3.1, running
> on Debian 3.0
> 
> Can anyone point me towards a realistic way of monitoring performance
> data and trend-lining with Nagios?  I know that Nagios can do gather
> some performance monitoring data (as per
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/perfdata.html), but from what I
> see, it leaves it up to you what to do with the data.
> 
> The situation that I'm currently in is that I want to watch some
> standard performance counters on several Microsoft boxes, like memory
> usage, CPU usage, free disk space, etc, and then trend it over time.
> While it is nice to know that, for example, I'm still below on my disk
> space warning value at any one particular snapshot, but it 
> would be even
> more valuable to compile those snapshots and watch the disk 
> consumption
> over time, and then possibly trend-line the data.
> 
> I know that there is the "Trends" reports within Nagios, but 
> it doesn't
> quite fit the bill as I need to know more than for how long is the
> service "ok" versus "warning" versus "critical".
> 
> Again, the Nagios documentation alluded to doing something like what I
> mentioned above (the doc says "you could setup an occassional cron job
> to process the entries in those files, squash them using rrdtool, dump
> them into a database, produce graphs, whatever..."), yet did not come
> out and say "to make your life easy, I recommend using the 
> XYZ package."
> 
> Does anyone have any experience in this, and would be willing to share
> their knowledge with me? Unfortunately, just "whipping up an 
> app" to do
> this isn't plausible as my programming/scripting abilities are just
> slightly better than Forest Gump's. 
> 
> 
>  
> Scott Elliott
> 
> 
> 
> 
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