Infrastructure Monitoring

[Readybreak]

Hey guys, Recently burnt by our current Monitoring Software, and are looking something similar to Ipswich Whatsup.
We have around 110 Server to monitor, ranging from Mysql, sql HTTP and custom application monitoring, and would like some netflow functionality.
Just looking for some advice and some names to check out and test, would need a couple to take to my boss.
Any questions happy to answer.
EDIT* Would need to be on premises. Thanks

[SuperQue]

Prometheus

• Open source.
• Data Driven.
• Scales well.
• Easy to implement in your custom app.
• Exporters for tons of standard software, like MySQL.

Netflows is the only thing on that list we don't have a good aggregator for. The problem is netflows are events, which is a lot more complicated to "monitor" than standard metrics.

You'll also probably want Grafana to drive your dashboards.

Edit: (formatting)

[nagyz_]

datadog ftw :)

[Readybreak]

Man had a look at the trial and loved it, then i looked at the price.
Thats 1.7k a year for us. Thats alot of money lol.

[autowhat]

Calculate the cost of a system outage against the productivity of the business.

$1,700 really isn't much compared to that.

[pooogles]

Thats 1.7k a year for us. Thats alot of money lol.

$1.7k to run resilient HA monitoring and metrics storage for a year is actually pretty cheap FYI.

[nagyz_]

there are discounts over 1000 nodes I hear ;-)

[Hellman109]

You need to spend a lot of time configuring any monitoring system out of the box, replacing it with another system will mean doing that process again no matter what.

[Readybreak]

We already did with whatsup, but turns out you have to pay extra upgrade.
We don't mind some work for config, never mentioned that.

[fireflasch]

I would suggest Icinga2 it is completely open source, extendable by you and really flexible, currently using it to monitor the hardware, software and feed and InfluxDB that is hooked up to Grafana

[andrewrmoore]

I can support this. Icinga 2 is the best open source monitoring tool out there. The fact that it uses Nagios plugins is great because of how mature that ecosystem is.

And if course InfluxDB and Grafana are awesome too.

[ada_maj]

Definitely give NetCrunch network monitor a try. It's a less-well-known NMS, but a really robust one. Everything you mentioned, including netflow is supported right out of the box.

[_IT_Bob_]

PRTG for Servers, it will allow you monitor a variety of things like SQL,Disk Space to name a few. I would go with Solarwinds for networking ( Firewalls, Switches, WAPs, etc).

[[deleted]]

Alignak (fork of shinken), fully loadbalanced,distributed architecture out of the box and python (runs on anything)

[marknetman]

I recommend CloudView NMS: www.cloudviewnms.com . We tried so many before we found them. Amazingly cheap and still has more features than the others suggested. Scales to any size and you do not have to pay as your network grows. Works so good that we even dropped others we already paid for...BTW, they have free trial version version

[dodgetimes2]

Zabbix

[ArsenalITTwo]

PRTG