Hi all - Looking for a monitoring/metrics tool that we can integrate into our servers. We are running a bunch of services on Tomcat that communicate via REST. Looking to monitor the standard host level metrics (memory, swap, disk usage, cpu, etc) as well as a bunch of Tomcat metrics (requests queued, throughput, time/request, memory usage, 200s, 404s, etc).
In any case, I started with Nagios but found it a bit unwieldy; has anyone used Hyperic, and if so how does it hold up? Any suggestions for alternatives?
Thanks very much,
anish
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Add AnswerHyperic seems pretty cool, and the price is right. I have not used it yet, but fully plan to check it out. I've used Nagios and Zenoss and have been impressed with Nagios. We had played around with Wily, when we had money to spend, but that took some set up too.
Are you using Tomcat as your webserver too? Have you checked out AWstats for your log monitors there (for your http analysis)? I've used that with Apache, and have heard of it being used with Tomcat. Not sure if you want to use your sysmon tool with your web analytics tool!
Check out Zabbix. They use an RDBMS for storage and have a php-based front end so you can customize the heck out of it too.
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