Nagios, Zabbix, LibreNMS, Prometheus, Grafana, Cacti, RRDtool and the rest: what each is good at and how they fit together.
A UGREEN NAS gives a home lab more CPU, RAM and M.2 slots. A Synology NAS gives it DSM, SNMP and mature backups. How to choose, and how to watch either one.
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Counters, five-minute graphs and red dots: how SNMP, MRTG, RRDtool, Nagios, Cacti, Zabbix, LibreNMS and Prometheus shaped the monitors we run today.
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Four open-source monitors, four ideas of what a measurement is. How Nagios, Zabbix, LibreNMS and Prometheus store data, where each hurts, and who each suits.
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