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MonitoringWhat 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.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
