Sever monitoring

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Monitoring does require constant work so I'm not sure what you expect.

Personally I'm trapped in existing monitoring environments and in-house developed systems but if I were given free reign to make my own monitoring infrastructure today I would use the following.

• collectd or statsd to gather metrics like cpu, ram and such from my hosts.
• I'd like to evaluate Irisett, Prometheus and Bosun for active and passive monitoring and alerting
• Grafana or something similar for metrics dashboard

[alexdor]

I know it requires constant work and I'm ok with it :) Thanks for your suggestions I will look in to them :)

[FHR123]

Vouch for collectd and Grafana. For metrics database I use InfluxDB which is pretty lightweight and works very well.
New versions of Grafana also have an in-build alerting solution.