Learning a monitoring and alerting tool in 2024, which one to choose?

[khrosovfrosov]

- It should be very popular(lots of helpful forums and lots of helpful tutorials)
Rest doesn't matter(Even if it's outdated and not used in production anymore).
I've heard various like
- zabbix
- monit
- prometheus, grafana
- icinga
- nagios

 

[anas_xrt]

netdata is most suitable for me and direct admin provide build that easy to install

 

[Richard G]

I've used Munin for a while.

 

[johannes]

What is the difference between the netdata installation by Custombuild, and the netdata plugin from here https://forum.directadmin.com/threads/netdata-server-stats.62137/ ?

 

[EthernetServers]

It really depends on what it is you're looking to monitor.

I really like https://nodeping.com/

It's quite a bit different from the options in your list in that you don't install any software, but rather, it does all its checks (i.e. ping, http, mysql, smtp, etc) remotely. You can learn more about what it can monitor at https://nodeping.com/features.html (see "Flexible check types")

 

[adam12]

I use Munin for analytics but not for alerting.

For alerting, I built a platform called Recon back in 2009, which is similar to Nodeping mentioned above. I find external alerting more reliable as it's an actual source of truth for something being accessible. I send my alerts over PushOver.

NetData is great, and if that's all you have it's worth the install.

 

[kristian]

I've used Zabbix since forever, and I love it. 7.0 was recently released just a few days ago. It might not be as straight forward to start using (as other tools), since it is quite complex, but it gives you a great deal of freedom and flexibility. It's open source, and has a pretty good community, but you can of course pay for support as well, if you want to.