Hi I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline. Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox. What is the 2016 tool for this? Regards, Baldur
We use observium. It has most of what you're looking for. Used to use cacti but switched a couple of months ago -----Original Message----- From: "Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 6:18pm To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: mrtg alternative Hi I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline. Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox. What is the 2016 tool for this? Regards, Baldur
Welcome to the future. Graphite/grafana. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 06:30:02PM -0500, Shawn L wrote:
We use observium. It has most of what you're looking for. Used to use cacti but switched a couple of months ago
-----Original Message----- From: "Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 6:18pm To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: mrtg alternative
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
A friend was just showing me grafana this morning. I use rtg for a lot of bandwidth data / graphs, but I also have observium for a lot of extra stuff. Kicked cacti to the curb a long time ago. rtg is really flexible, but the graphing isn't pretty. Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 27, 2016, at 20:42, B <b-nanog@grmbl.net> wrote:
Welcome to the future. Graphite/grafana.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 06:30:02PM -0500, Shawn L wrote:
We use observium. It has most of what you're looking for. Used to use cacti but switched a couple of months ago
-----Original Message----- From: "Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 6:18pm To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: mrtg alternative
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
We use Zenoss, pretty awesome and do the job. Mohamed Kamal Core Network Sr. Engineer On 2/27/2016 1:18 AM, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
I like cacti: http://www.cacti.net 2016-02-26 20:18 GMT-03:00 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
Zabbix works for me
On 27-02-2016, at 18:12, Rafael Ganascim <rganascim@gmail.com> wrote:
I like cacti:
2016-02-26 20:18 GMT-03:00 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
Zabbix for monitoring/graphing/alerting Can be used for maps and SLA measurements too
Le 28 févr. 2016 à 00:27, Roberto Alvarado <ralvarado@anycast.cl> a écrit :
Zabbix works for me
On 27-02-2016, at 18:12, Rafael Ganascim <rganascim@gmail.com> wrote:
I like cacti:
2016-02-26 20:18 GMT-03:00 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
PRTG since years ... And smokeping for special things ... Best regards Jürgen Jaritsch Head of Network & Infrastructure ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH Telefon: +43-5-0556-300 Telefax: +43-5-0556-500 E-Mail: jj@anexia.at Web: http://www.anexia.at Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601 -----Original Message----- From: Guillaume Tournat [guillaume@ironie.org] Received: Sonntag, 28 Feb. 2016, 11:39 To: Roberto Alvarado [ralvarado@anycast.cl]; nanog@nanog.org [nanog@nanog.org] Subject: Re: mrtg alternative Zabbix for monitoring/graphing/alerting Can be used for maps and SLA measurements too
Le 28 févr. 2016 à 00:27, Roberto Alvarado <ralvarado@anycast.cl> a écrit :
Zabbix works for me
On 27-02-2016, at 18:12, Rafael Ganascim <rganascim@gmail.com> wrote:
I like cacti:
2016-02-26 20:18 GMT-03:00 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
We’re using Observium for trend collecting, graphing, and alerting. -Pete On 2/27/16, 13:12, "NANOG on behalf of Rafael Ganascim" <nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of rganascim@gmail.com> wrote:
I like cacti:
2016-02-26 20:18 GMT-03:00 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
Hey, LibreNMS is an opensource Observium's fork with some extra addons... Take a look: http://www.librenms.org -- Alessandro Martins On Feb 27, 2016 20:37, "Peter Loron" <peterl@standingwave.org> wrote:
We’re using Observium for trend collecting, graphing, and alerting.
-Pete
On 2/27/16, 13:12, "NANOG on behalf of Rafael Ganascim" < nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of rganascim@gmail.com> wrote:
I like cacti:
2016-02-26 20:18 GMT-03:00 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
Similar in name but more comprehensive in scope, OpenNMS may also be worth a look. Disclosure: I work for the project's primary maintainer. On March 1, 2016 5:50:07 PM EST, Alessandro Martins <alessandro.martins@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
LibreNMS is an opensource Observium's fork with some extra addons...
Take a look: http://www.librenms.org
-- Alessandro Martins On Feb 27, 2016 20:37, "Peter Loron" <peterl@standingwave.org> wrote:
We’re using Observium for trend collecting, graphing, and alerting.
-Pete
On 2/27/16, 13:12, "NANOG on behalf of Rafael Ganascim" < nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of rganascim@gmail.com> wrote:
I like cacti:
2016-02-26 20:18 GMT-03:00 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
-jeff
+1 on Observium. I know I am late replying but I just installed it a couple weeks ago. It integrates with Smokeping, Rancid, CollectD, Syslo... Took me 1 day to setup on CentOS. Fantastic product so far! //LeBlanc
We’re using Observium for trend collecting, graphing, and alerting.
-Pete
Consultant here... We used StatSeeker at a large state government WAN (my last gig before turning consultant) and I personally loved it for graphs and to point customers to (you can easily set up user accounts where they can log in via a web portal and they can see the graphs you assign them). I have no idea how much it costs or how easy / difficult the backend server set up is.
From a network admin point of view, if all you need is graphs you cannot beat the ease of StatSeeker. I have nothing bad to say about them - their support is great (but they are on Australian time). It's been a couple years since I've used it though.
We also had OpenNMS and Intermapper, both of which were kind of quirky, but seemed to get the job done. We had internal support for OpenNMS, which was decent (as good as your staff is). Intermapper support was horrible. Today we deploy a lot of Cacti and it seems to work well, once it's working. I see a lot of MRTG at our customer sites too. I've seen a few SolarWinds instances as well. Customers that use these seem happy with their choice. Zenoss I've only seen at CiscoLive, but I was impressed. Observium also looks like a good product, but I've never seen it on a network. -bb On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Jason LeBlanc < jason.leblanc@infusionsoft.com> wrote:
+1 on Observium.
I know I am late replying but I just installed it a couple weeks ago. It integrates with Smokeping, Rancid, CollectD, Syslo... Took me 1 day to setup on CentOS. Fantastic product so far!
//LeBlanc
We’re using Observium for trend collecting, graphing, and alerting.
-Pete
"Vendor" here (technologist role, occasionally helping with sales, at OpenNMS.com)... On 03/23/2016 09:32 AM, Ben Bartsch wrote:
We used StatSeeker at a large state government WAN (my last gig before turning consultant) and I personally loved it for graphs and to point customers to (you can easily set up user accounts where they can log in via a web portal and they can see the graphs you assign them). I have no idea how much it costs or how easy / difficult the backend server set up is.
We're in the middle of a project with a customer to replace StatSeeker with OpenNMS. That's a very realistic goal now that Cassandra is an option for our time-series metric storage. StatSeeker can definitely get expensive, but I can't speak to ease of setup or operation.
We also had OpenNMS and Intermapper, both of which were kind of quirky, but seemed to get the job done.
Glad to hear we got the job done. I'm the first to admit that custom graph configuration in OpenNMS itself is still pretty crap (it amounts to editing RRDTool graph definitions). That's a big part of why we now have a Grafana data source plugin: http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Grafana
We had internal support for OpenNMS, which was decent (as good as your staff is).
I'm the person responsible for making the support experience far above "decent". I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we can improve; please contact me off-list if you have the time and inclination. -jeff
+1 for Statseeker. Ease of use etc (price depends on eg site size etc). Can do lots on just one mid server unlike some other bloaty solutions out there. But we also still use MRTG for some local bespoke measurements PS you can get a free Eval of statseeker. Obnote, don't work for them just a fairly happy customer alan
+1 for Cacti. I tried zenoss & observium but still Cacti is more cool in terms of tweaking templates as well as the tree mode for easy quick representation. Thanks for starting this cool thread. Will help in getting links to some of other cool projects which we don't hear around. On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
+1 for Statseeker. Ease of use etc (price depends on eg site size etc). Can do lots on just one mid server unlike some other bloaty solutions out there. But we also still use MRTG for some local bespoke measurements
PS you can get a free Eval of statseeker. Obnote, don't work for them just a fairly happy customer
alan
-- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com
Look into AKiPS.. Some of the guys from Statseeker made it better :-) On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
+1 for Cacti.
I tried zenoss & observium but still Cacti is more cool in terms of tweaking templates as well as the tree mode for easy quick representation.
Thanks for starting this cool thread. Will help in getting links to some of other cool projects which we don't hear around.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
+1 for Statseeker. Ease of use etc (price depends on eg site size etc). Can do lots on just one mid server unlike some other bloaty solutions out there. But we also still use MRTG for some local bespoke measurements
PS you can get a free Eval of statseeker. Obnote, don't work for them just a fairly happy customer
alan
--
Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com
-- Luca Salvatore Manager, Network Team | DigitalOcean Phone: +1 (929) 214-7242
"AKIPS continues to lead the market as the only network monitoring system to monitor SNMP, Ping, Syslog, Traps and Netflow, all at one low subscription price, independent of the size of your network “ At $5K/year subscription starting price, I think my definition of “low” differs from AKiPS :) -mel On Mar 23, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Luca Salvatore via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> wrote: Look into AKiPS.. Some of the guys from Statseeker made it better :-) On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com<mailto:me@anuragbhatia.com>> wrote: +1 for Cacti. I tried zenoss & observium but still Cacti is more cool in terms of tweaking templates as well as the tree mode for easy quick representation. Thanks for starting this cool thread. Will help in getting links to some of other cool projects which we don't hear around. On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk<mailto:A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk>> wrote: +1 for Statseeker. Ease of use etc (price depends on eg site size etc). Can do lots on just one mid server unlike some other bloaty solutions out there. But we also still use MRTG for some local bespoke measurements PS you can get a free Eval of statseeker. Obnote, don't work for them just a fairly happy customer alan -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com<http://anuragbhatia.com> -- Luca Salvatore Manager, Network Team | DigitalOcean Phone: +1 (929) 214-7242
May want to check out AKiPS. It's non-free, but we've been using it for a while now, and it works pretty well. The UI is a little rough, but the poller is fast, and the graphs render quickly. https://www.akips.com/ On 2016-03-24, Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com> sent:
+1 for Cacti.
I tried zenoss & observium but still Cacti is more cool in terms of tweaking templates as well as the tree mode for easy quick representation.
Thanks for starting this cool thread. Will help in getting links to some of other cool projects which we don't hear around.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
+1 for Statseeker. Ease of use etc (price depends on eg site size etc). Can do lots on just one mid server unlike some other bloaty solutions out there. But we also still use MRTG for some local bespoke measurements
PS you can get a free Eval of statseeker. Obnote, don't work for them just a fairly happy customer
alan
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-- Chip Marshall <chip@2bithacker.net> http://2bithacker.net/
Hi, Cacti works... Biggest case I know, ~180 devices. A few issues with THold plugin but nothing that can't be fixed. And they are working on a new release (available thru github) which include most of the useful plugins. ----- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443 On 02/27/16 16:12, Rafael Ganascim wrote:
I like cacti:
2016-02-26 20:18 GMT-03:00 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
Hi, collectd has the features you mentioned (select/deselect , zoom...) and it is, quote: "built to scale". BR Max M. On 09.03.2016 14:01, Alain Hebert wrote:
Hi,
Cacti works... Biggest case I know, ~180 devices. A few issues with THold plugin but nothing that can't be fixed.
And they are working on a new release (available thru github) which include most of the useful plugins.
----- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443
On 02/27/16 16:12, Rafael Ganascim wrote:
I like cacti:
2016-02-26 20:18 GMT-03:00 Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
InfluxDB + Grafana are a modern alternative from the DevOps space: http://lkhill.com/using-influxdb-grafana-to-display-network-statistics/ On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
I went with InfluxDB and Grafana. It was exactly what I wanted. Thanks for all the suggestions. Regards, Baldur On 28 February 2016 at 00:20, Peter Phaal <peter.phaal@gmail.com> wrote:
InfluxDB + Grafana are a modern alternative from the DevOps space:
http://lkhill.com/using-influxdb-grafana-to-display-network-statistics/
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:18:16AM +0100, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
You might want to check out http://www.librenms.org/ Kind regards, Job
An alternative to Observium is LibreNMS, with a more liberal license/community. Cheers, B On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:18:16AM +0100, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
Hi
I am currently using MRTG and RRD to make traffic graphs. I am searching for more modern alternatives that allows the user to dynamically zoom and scroll the timeline.
Bonus points if the user can customize the graphs directly in the webbrowse. For example he might be able to add or remove individual peers from the graph by simply clicking a checkbox.
What is the 2016 tool for this?
Regards,
Baldur
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