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| Cacti | checkmk | |
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| 23 | 83 | |
| 1,562 | 1,320 | |
| 2.4% | 4.8% | |
| 9.7 | 10.0 | |
| 9 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| PHP | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
checkmk
Posts with mentions or reviews of checkmk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.
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Building a Managed Service Provider Business With Open Source
CheckMK - GitHub
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Monitoring solution
CheckMK https://checkmk.com. You can spin this up in a docker container
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"All in one monitoring solution"?
I use CheckMK to do all of this and more, except nutanix. But checkmk also can Monitor nutanix via the "Nutanix Prism" special agent Integration
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Is there an alternative to BI Tools?
BI machine and NVR report to CheckMK Raw host so it's easy to see historic stats.
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Uptime Monitor
I’m using https://checkmk.com/ to monitor stuff and it seems to work great. Lots of built in features and functions and if they don’t have what you need you can also create custom scripts to check and report on anything you can dream up. Runs great in docker (I’m using portainer but will run fine in plain old docker).
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Actually usefull or uneccessary? SNMP, AD, Monitoring...
Have a look at CheckMK open source version is really good, you can spin it up in a docker container and is relatively easy to get some initial monitors going. As to whether it's worthwhile, I guess it depends how much you want to know how you servers are doing and when something goes wrong.
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Monitoring Tools
Checkmk
- Anyway to monitor 20+ server in one single place?
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Is there a dashboard of sorts that can keep track of my linux-based computers and VMs to that I can easily see if any of them have updates or are running low on storage and et cetera?
checkmk: https://checkmk.com/
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What monitoring system do you use?
Checkmk I have use the "raw" (free) version and we now use the enterprise version. Both are very capable.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Cacti and checkmk you can also consider the following projects:
LibreNMS - Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Munin - Main repository for munin master / node / plugins
uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
LibreNMS-docker - LibreNMS Docker image
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.
openITCOCKPIT - openITCOCKPIT is an Open Source system monitoring tool built for different monitoring engines like Nagios, Naemon and Prometheus.
Icinga2
postgres - Docker Official Image packaging for Postgres
Thruk - Thruk is a multibackend monitoring webinterface for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken using the Livestatus API.
MeshCentral - A complete web-based remote monitoring and management web site. Once setup you can install agents and perform remote desktop session to devices on the local network or over the Internet.