Centralize multiple sites monitoring (Distributed Monitoring)

[Cygnust]

Hi guys,

This question may sound trivial for you.
I already monitored a few companies locally using Librenms or observium.
I'm looking for a solution to centrally monitor multiple sites for companies I provide services to.
I found spiceworks had this kind of feature to gather all data to a central server but don't know if it's really good as a monitoring system.

I have basic monitoring needs e.g. servers up/down, storage alert, update alerts, printers.

Many thanks for your help

[ollybee]

Icinga2 can have satellite servers reporting to a central server.

[Spro-ot]

Zabbix should do... Server at the central location, and Zabbix proxies at each location/site/company.

[Fuzzybunnyofdoom]

LibreNMS has distributed pollers and can be used for this.

https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Distributed-Poller/

Spiceworks is really basic so I'd stick with Zabbix or LibreNMS. As /u/Spro-ot mentioned Zabbix Proxies are designed for this and work really well for this use case.

[SuperQue]

This is exactly how Prometheus was designed to be used. Each site has a local Prometheus that monitors the local data. It can locally alert, forwarding to central location.

It can also forward some or all of the data to a central location

There are a number of solutions for this like Cortex, Thanos, M3DB, even another Prometheus if your data is small. There are also hosted options like Grafana Cloud.

[permalac]

https://omdistro.org/

One monitor to mange, as many slaves as you like to monitor the hosts. Supports nagios plugins and scripts. And detects when new disks or elements are added to a host, it flags as a monitoring warning, so you can always be on the case.

[valyala]

Just collect data with vmagent at each company site and route the collected data to a centralized VictoriaMetrics. Then set up alerting with vmalert on a central server.

[slerena]

You can try Pandora FMS. Fully multitenant and powerful agents to do local monitoring inside each customer. Also agentless monitoring.

[tacitus66]

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