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  5. Munin vs Nagios vs Zabbix

Munin vs Nagios vs Zabbix

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Overview

Nagios
Nagios
Stacks811
Followers1.1K
Votes102
GitHub Stars57
Forks38
Zabbix
Zabbix
Stacks684
Followers981
Votes66
GitHub Stars5.3K
Forks1.1K
Munin
Munin
Stacks71
Followers95
Votes10
GitHub Stars2.1K
Forks479

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Advice on Nagios, Zabbix, Munin

vivek
vivek

Jun 8, 2020

Needs adviceonCentreonCentreonZabbixZabbixDatadogDatadog

My team is divided on using Centreon or Zabbix for enterprise monitoring and alert automation. Can someone let us know which one is better? There is one more tool called Datadog that we are using for cloud assets. Of course, Datadog presents us with huge bills. So we want to have a comparative study. Suggestions and advice are welcome. Thanks!

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Matthias
Matthias

Teamlead IT at NanoTemper Technologies

Jun 11, 2020

Decided
  • free open source
  • modern interface and architecture
  • large community
  • extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
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Detailed Comparison

Nagios
Nagios
Zabbix
Zabbix
Munin
Munin

Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.

Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.

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.

Monitor your entire IT infrastructure;Spot problems before they occur;Know immediately when problems arise;Share availability data with stakeholders;Detect security breaches;Plan and budget for IT upgrades;Reduce downtime and business losses
Smart, Highly Automated Metric Collection; Advanced Problem Detection; Intelligent Alerting and Remediation
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
57
GitHub Stars
5.3K
GitHub Stars
2.1K
GitHub Forks
38
GitHub Forks
1.1K
GitHub Forks
479
Stacks
811
Stacks
684
Stacks
71
Followers
1.1K
Followers
981
Followers
95
Votes
102
Votes
66
Votes
10
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 53
    It just works
  • 28
    The standard
  • 12
    Customizable
  • 8
    The Most flexible monitoring system
  • 1
    Huge stack of free checks/plugins to choose from
Pros
  • 21
    Free
  • 9
    Alerts
  • 5
    Templates
  • 5
    Service/node/network discovery
  • 4
    Base metrics from the box
Cons
  • 5
    The UI is in PHP
  • 2
    Puppet module is sluggish
Pros
  • 3
    Good defaults
  • 2
    Alerts can trigger any command line program
  • 2
    Extremely fast to install
  • 2
    Adheres to traditional Linux standards
  • 1
    Easy to write custom plugins
Integrations
No integrations available
Slack
Slack
Jira
Jira
PagerDuty
PagerDuty
Grafana
Grafana
Ansible
Ansible
Skype
Skype
Chef
Chef
Bugzilla
Bugzilla
HipChat
HipChat
ServiceNow.com
ServiceNow.com
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Nagios, Zabbix, Munin?

Grafana

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.

Kibana

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.

Prometheus

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.

Netdata

Netdata

Netdata collects metrics per second & presents them in low-latency dashboards. It's designed to run on all of your physical & virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters & edge/IoT devices, to monitor systems, containers & apps

Sensu

Sensu

Sensu is the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline empowers businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain deep visibility into their multi-cloud environments.

Graphite

Graphite

Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand

Lumigo

Lumigo

Lumigo is an observability platform built for developers, unifying distributed tracing with payload data, log management, and real-time metrics to help you deeply understand and troubleshoot your systems.

StatsD

StatsD

It is a network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP or TCP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite).

Jaeger

Jaeger

Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing System

Telegraf

Telegraf

It is an agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics.

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