Greetings,
I'm looking for a monitoring solution for servers. The goal is to monitor a few dozen machines, not more. My expectations:
- Monitor servers through commands (e.g. check if HTTP is up with curl/wget, check if the MySQL port responds, SSH in and check load or free disk space or available updates, etc.)
- Collect this information and show it on a web interface
- If some stats exceed certain values, set alarm state and send a mail
- Configuration through text files
Nagios/Icinga, which I have some experience with, fits the bill. However, I dislike it for being rather bloated and unnecessarily complex.
I have also been testing various other recommendations recently, but haven't found anything I like. It seems that no minimal solutions exist. I don't need something using exotic programming languages or DB formats, or huge enterprise class clustered monitoring farms, or configuration which requires a PhD, or services that aggregate system streams into humongous frameworks of processing languages and logging.
Just a simple daemon, configured via text files, that polls machines and spits it out on a web interface.
Does anyone know such a thing? Many thanks!
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