MuninWhat is Munin?
Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.
Munin is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Munin Pros & Cons
Pros of Munin
- ✓Good defaults
- ✓Adheres to traditional Linux standards
- ✓Alerts can trigger any command line program
- ✓Extremely fast to install
- ✓Easy to write custom plugins
Cons of Munin
No cons listed yet.
Munin Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Munin?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
