Munin VS Cacti

I rediscovered Munin. To my surprise it is written entirely in Perl. I remember Munin from years ago... it still seems healty and maintained and lies ready on your Deb-Repositories. So I followed the Easy Install Guide... which really is easy, but fails to mention that you need to install your own HTTP-Server to serve the HTML-reports.

A bit of background, which may make understanding my choices in this lib easier: Munin is a resource monitoring tool using rrdtool, usually run in a Server/Client Setup. The client accepts plugins which are just executables in a directory. Usually written in a scripting language, but it actually doesn't matter. Data is fetched every 5 minutes, plugins are first run with a config argument to spit out a munin graph config, followed by a run without arguments to present data. To support higher resolutions than just "every 5 minutes", graph config can contain config to tell munin one collects it every second. Then the fetching part needs to run as a daemon, writing a cache somewhere which gets output when munin wants the data.

Munin plugins and management script for monitoring various Pi-hole® statistics.

When you do not have enough power you would get errors because looking up the plots would simply fail. Sounds more that there is one disk which is slower. I had one 2TB external usb which was really slow and the latency of lookups was through the roof. Are you on linux ? Then install munin-monitoring.org it shows latency of the disks out of the box.

what os ? on linux install https://munin-monitoring.org/ it will give you disk latency information.

I'd say give Munin a try.

Munin plugins for monitoring Pi-hole®. Transforms a server into a powerful monitoring platform, as simple as one, two, three, ...four.

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.

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.

Cactai is also free, but has a steep learning curve. https://www.cacti.net/

Nice write-up! I've done similar with Cacti, which is free.

Cacti - network monitoring

https://www.cacti.net/.

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.

Just to throw this one out there, I use cacti https://www.cacti.net/ for my network monitoring.

I''ve had good luck graphing our switch port statistics with Cacti.