Cacti
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Thruk is a multibackend monitoring webinterface for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken using the Livestatus API. (by sni)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Cacti
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cacti.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-21.
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Periodic network saturation
If you have SNMP access to your switches, a very simple quick start is to use Cacti (https://www.cacti.net/) which will give you some nice graphs in no time at all. Far less complex than setting up/configuring a full monitoring system or NetFlow/SFlow.
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PHP errors with Cacti
This was fixed in the following commit https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/d1c1380ad9250c323f1dc874e26840c80edd3afb, I suggest upgrading cacti to at least the 1.2.20 version.
- CVE-2022-46169: Unauthenticated Command Injection in Cacti detected as being exploited in the wild - see comments
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What's a good free/cheap monitoring software?
Cactai is also free, but has a steep learning curve. https://www.cacti.net/
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Unifi SNMP & PRTG
Nice write-up! I've done similar with Cacti, which is free.
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Help out a new sysadmin?
Cacti - network monitoring
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Is there a good tool that I can deploy to a micro PC that can monitor/log/report different stats of network health?
https://www.cacti.net/.
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Show min / max temperatures in lm_sensors
Pretty simple request, but I couldn't find any solution on the internet, neither in Archwiki / Gentoowiki. There are some complicated things like cacti that can read sensord output, but that's a bit of overkill. I just want something like hwinfo64 for $forbidden_OS.
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Network Monitoring Solution
Just to throw this one out there, I use cacti https://www.cacti.net/ for my network monitoring.
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Possible to graph the number 'up' ports on a Cisco/extreme switch using SNMP
I''ve had good luck graphing our switch port statistics with Cacti.
Thruk
Posts with mentions or reviews of Thruk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.
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Zabbix, Nagios... vs PRTG.
There are also a bunch of web interfaces available such as Thruk
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Network Monitoring Solution
I switched from Nagios to Naemon (a fork of Nagios), the migration is super easy, you don't even have to be nonweldable at all in linux to achieve it, and almost all the config files are compatible. It's also compatible with all the Nagios plugins, but the GUI is way better than the one on Nagios (is called Thruk https://www.thruk.org)
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Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture
Fast forward 12 years and I have Icinga2 collectors in each datacenter using check_by_ssh to run check_systemd, all front-ended by Thruk. The TIG stack is something on my list of things to look into at some point, but with Dynatrace available to do all the fancy application monitoring, there's no rush.
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Anyone using LibreNMS in production?
For alerting for Linux systems, I use Icinga with check_ssh and check_systemd (caveat: distributed primarily on PyPI) with Thruk as the single pane of glass front-end to per-datacenter installations of Icinga.
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Templates Best Practices for Nagios?
But there are also other solutions out there that can manage the configs for you such as Thruk or Adagios.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Cacti and Thruk you can also consider the following projects:
LibreNMS - Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Nagios - Nagios Core
Munin - Main repository for munin master / node / plugins
Centreon - Centreon is a network, system and application monitoring tool. Centreon is the only AIOps Platform Providing Holistic Visibility to Complex IT Workflows from Cloud to Edge.
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.
Icinga2
Adagios - Adagios - Web Based Nagios Configuration
cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.