Archive | collectd

03 January 2012 ~ Comments Off

Graphite, JMXTrans, Ganglia, Logster, Collectd, say what ?

Given that @patrickdebois is working on improving data collection I thought it would be a good idea to describe the setup I currently have hacked together.
(Something which can be used as a starting point to improve stuff, and I have to write document…

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03 January 2012 ~ Comments Off

#monitoringsucks and we’ll fix it !

If you are hacking on monitoring solutions, and want to talk to your peers solving the problem
Block the monday and tuesday after fosdem in your calendar !
That’s right on february 6 and 7 a bunch of people interrested to fix the problem will be meetin…

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20 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

Switching from munin to collectd

Readers of this little blog may know I’ve spent some time to have a munin setup that was tweaked to be optimized. But I’ve reached a point where my knowledge did not suffice to balance the design problems of munin. This is not a rant, I just say that when your infrastructure reaches a certain [...]

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18 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

Monitoring, another way

Some friends told me for a while about collectd, why I should look at it, why munin is so painful and so on. If you’ve been reading my posts you know I have tweaked a little my $WORK munin install to make it faster and lighter. But I finally took time to explore collectd, and [...]

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