collectd VS Zabbix

collectd Reviews

Zabbix Reviews

1. Stan    

   Founder at SaaSHub | 11 months ago
   Indispensable

   Zabbix has been part of my toolbox for quite some time. I can easily say it's an indispensable tool for me now.

   Managing a dozen servers without Zabbix would be unimaginable. I'm monitoring all of this: CPU, Memory, Hard-drives, website response times, downtime. The UI might be a bit "old school", but everything works flawlessly.

   With regards to hard-drive monitoring, I love the machine learning option that allows you to "predict" the number of days before running out of space. That's quite helpful, as I've got some of my servers down due to running out of space multiple times in the past (before I was using Zabbix).

   👍 Pros:    Open-source|It can monitor everything

   👎 Cons:    The ui is a bit unintuitive in some cases

collectd mentions (6)

• μMon: Stupid simple monitoring

  Https://collectd.org/ does the gathering (and writing to RRDTool database, if you so desire) part very well. Many plugins, easy to add more (just return one line of text) Still need RRD viewere but that's not a huge stack And it scales all the way to hundreds of hosts, as on top of network send/receive of stats it supports few other write formats aside from just RRD files. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• μMon: Stupid simple monitoring

  Why not use https://collectd.org/ which is in C and used by openwrt's luci already along with rrdtool, small in size, low on resource, and has so many plugins already? - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Post Mortem on Mastodon Outage with 30k users

  Then you will have same problems but now you can bother manufacturer about it! Also unless there is something horribly wrong about how often data is written, that SSD should run for ages. We ran (for a test) consumer SSDs in busy ES cluster and they still lasted like 2 years just fine The whole setup was a bit of overcomplicated too. RAID10 with 5+1 or 7+1 (yes Linux can do 7 drive RAID10) with hotspare woud've... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• IT Pro Tuesday #217 - Python Frameworks, Logging Tutorial, Android Terminal & More

  Collectd pulls metrics from the OS, applications, logfiles and external devices for use in monitoring systems, finding performance bottlenecks and capacity planning. Hombre_sabio explains, "Collectd is a tiny daemon that gathers information from a system. It enables mechanisms to collect and observe the values in different techniques. It is an open-source monitoring tool to retrieve and manage SNMP master agents.". Source: over 1 year ago

• CPU Performance of a docker minecraft java server on Raspberry Pi 4

  For metrics storage I'm using a Graphite database and the graph UI itself is Grafana. To get these I'm using the Debian repos they supply with mostly off-the-shelf configs. For collecting metrics from the Pi to send to Graphite I use collectd. It has a lot of off-the-shelf plugins you can use to grab metrics like CPU usage & load average, network in/out, memory stats etc. The Minecraft-specific stuff you can get... Source: over 2 years ago

Zabbix mentions (5)

• Learning Resources

  Official Zabbix trainings, documentation on zabbix.com ? Source: over 1 year ago

• zabbix installation

  Hallo, do you know a howto to install zabbix on an ubuntu 20.04 ? I tried the manuals from zabbix.com for MySQL Apache but it didn't work. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How I am getting experience as a linux admistrator (Follow Up)

  He suggested that I indeed should set up a home-lab. To be specific he said that I should create a minimal install of Centos 8 and install zabbix server on it (https://zabbix.com) and monitor a whole bunch of other VMs, services and stuff.. He said that I should set up a variety of VMs and also maybe host a website on one of them. And then if I was able to do that, I could help to share a load of zabbix related... Source: about 2 years ago

• Ubuntu Impish 21.10 / Zabbix 6.0 LTS

  This is a fresh 21.10 install, using the install repo as detailed on the zabbix.com download page. Source: about 2 years ago

• One dev conference speaker's family member died, need your help to fill the speaking slot on Nov 27/28

  Well, if you can't find anyone, I am more than happy to fill the slot with something regarding Zabbix - just let me know ;). Source: over 2 years ago