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Quick summary, since the site is down: In response (obviously) to http://www.slideshare.net/superdupersheep/stop-using-nagios-so-it-can-die-peacefully http://w

Quick summary, since the site is down: In response (obviously) to http://www.slideshare.net/superdupersheep/stop-using-nagios-so-it-can-die-peacefully http://www.slideshare.net/superdupersheep/stop-using-nagios-... (also available through HN). Author uses Nagios at Etsy, with 10,000 checks (mostly in the 2 minute range), and it seems to work well for them with some minor tweaking. They have a plugin that provides a REST API. And he thinks the rest of the complaints are about backend stuff that he doesn't deal with much or at all (configs, wire formats, et al.) He considers Nagios to be simpler than the proposed Sensu, and prefers "Unix style" applications rather than monolithic ones, where Nagios is certainly on the simpler side. So he will continue using Nagios because it works well for his use, and good luck making something better.

toomuchtodo 13y ago
> So he will continue using Nagios because it works well for his use, and good luck making something better. Ops guy here. If something better than Nagios/Zabbix came along, ops people would use it. Nagios gets used because 1) people know it and 2) its pretty easy to setup. Is it going to scale to Netflix or AWS scale organizations? Probably not. But at that scale, I presume you have buckets of money to throw at problems (i.e. build a custom monitoring platform).
- nobodysfool 13y ago
  That's like saying 'If something better tha PHP came along, programmers would use it'. Something better did come along, but that doesn't change the fact that PHP is still popular.
  - akerl_ 13y ago
    It's not like saying that at all. There aren't a plethora of full-featured monitoring/alerting tools out there.
- nailer 13y ago
  Back in 2009/10 I used an 'enterprise' competitor to both that was proprietary and 'definitely nothing to do with Zabbix' according to the vendor. A simple 'strings' on the proprietary app's agents revealed a whole lot of 'zbx'. Link: https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10155&page=5 https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10155&page=5
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- koenigdavidmj 13y ago
  Ten seconds on Facebook shows that the Laurie Denness who works at Etsy is most decidedly not a woman.

toomuchtodo 13y ago

> So he will continue using Nagios because it works well for his use, and good luck making something better. Ops guy here. If something better than Nagios/Zabbix came along, ops people would use it. Nagios gets used because 1) people know it and 2) its pretty easy to setup. Is it going to scale to Netflix or AWS scale organizations? Probably not. But at that scale, I presume you have buckets of money to throw at problems (i.e. build a custom monitoring platform).

nobodysfool 13y ago
That's like saying 'If something better tha PHP came along, programmers would use it'. Something better did come along, but that doesn't change the fact that PHP is still popular.
- akerl_ 13y ago
  It's not like saying that at all. There aren't a plethora of full-featured monitoring/alerting tools out there.
nailer 13y ago
Back in 2009/10 I used an 'enterprise' competitor to both that was proprietary and 'definitely nothing to do with Zabbix' according to the vendor. A simple 'strings' on the proprietary app's agents revealed a whole lot of 'zbx'. Link: https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10155&page=5 https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10155&page=5

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koenigdavidmj 13y ago
Ten seconds on Facebook shows that the Laurie Denness who works at Etsy is most decidedly not a woman.