Server load monitoring

Highland · **Joined:** Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:55 pm **Posts:** 657

I've been trying to convince my boss to move us onto a scalable cluster but it's been an uphill battle. Is there some sort of tool to log (and maybe graph) the server load? We bounce between 1 and 6 all day long. A graph would go a long way towards this.

scott · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:50 pm

Have you checked out cacti? http://www.cacti.net/

breun · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:44 pm

Munin is pretty easy and gives you a lot of graphs out of the box (munin and munin-node packages are available from rpmforge/EPEL). I'm a big fan of Zenoss myself, but that's probably overkill for your needs right now.

Highland · **Joined:** Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:55 pm **Posts:** 657

Thanks for the suggestions. I had looked into Zenoss but I didn't have the time to really mess with it. I went with Cacti since it's PHP based and easy to get running. Munin uses the same backend (RRDTool) but in PERL. Cacti is also available from rpmforge and that covered about 50% of what needed to be done.

Incidentally it puts it into /var/www/cacti by default.

breun · **Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:34 pm

Zenoss also uses RRD. I guess all monitoring tools do.

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