I'm looking for an OpenSource server monitoring tool that allows the following: Monitor a variety of services on TCP, UDP. Supports custom port numbers. Supports some basic response checking (beyond initial connection checking). Basic dashboard overview of health status. Alert notifications via e-mail. I could roll my own, but want to make sure I don't reinvent the wheel if there's a complete suite out there that does what I want (and maybe more!). EDIT : Preferably software that runs on Windows.

Reputation: 12082

OpenSource tools/services for server monitoring

I'm looking for an OpenSource server monitoring tool that allows the following:

Monitor a variety of services on TCP, UDP.
Supports custom port numbers.
Supports some basic response checking (beyond initial connection checking).
Basic dashboard overview of health status.
Alert notifications via e-mail.

I could roll my own, but want to make sure I don't reinvent the wheel if there's a complete suite out there that does what I want (and maybe more!).

EDIT: Preferably software that runs on Windows.

Upvotes: 2

Answers (2)

Matthew Watson

Reputation: 14243

Nagios is the way to go. Very powerful and customizable. Has dashboards, history, alerts, graphs, and much more.

I you want something a bit fancier, there is Groundwork which is built on nagios and various other bits and pieces, but I didn't really like that after playing with it for a little bit. It also costs for anything but the community edition.

Upvotes: 1

Martin v. Löwis

Reputation: 127467

I recommend the "mon" package (http://www.kernel.org/software/mon). It is pre-packages in most Linux distributions, and fairly customizable.

Upvotes: 1

OpenSource tools/services for server monitoring

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