On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:46:11AM +0100, Tom Wilcox wrote: > On 17/06/2010 22:41, Greg Smith wrote: >> Tom Wilcox wrote: >>> Any suggestions for good monitoring software for linux? >> >> By monitoring, do you mean for alerting purposes or for graphing purposes? >> Nagios is the only reasonable choice for the former, while doing at best >> a mediocre job at the latter. For the later, I've found that Munin does a >> good job of monitoring Linux and PostgreSQL in its out of the box >> configuration, in terms of providing useful activity graphs. And you can >> get it to play nice with Nagios. >> > Thanks Greg. Ill check Munin and Nagios out. It is very much for graphing > purposes. I would like to be able to perform objective, > platform-independent style performance comparisons. > > Cheers, > Tom > Zabbix-1.8+ is also worth taking a look at and it can run off our favorite database. It allows for some very flexible monitoring and trending data collection. Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance