On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Jason Lixfeld
<jason@lixfeld.ca> wrote:
Wow, I'm sorry to hear. I moved to Observium from Cacti because Cacti was a pig, the plugins sucked, graphs were half missing, it was a pain in the arse. Mind you, there are a couple of irksome things about Observium, but from what I understand, they won't be fixed because the folks who work on the particular components of what I report as broken (pseudowires, for example) aren't interested in fixing it; which is fair. It's not a feature that I need, just something that would be really cool if it did actually work because keeping track of our pseudowires in a Confluence spreadsheet is pretty ghetto.
There are things I'd like to see too in it like Asterisk counters, but understand that I'd need to write that myself - which I don't have time for at present or in the foreseeable future....
The other issue I have with Observium is hostname truncating, but Adam thinks my naming convention is crappy, so I don't stand a chance in hell of getting that fixed :)
Yeah, that bugged me at first since I monitor multiple client machines as well as mine and some have the same names - so truncating makes it harder to tell which is which from a listing...
Would like to see pagination of lists too as some get pretty long....
I think Observium is better than anything else I've tried. I haven't tried Zabbix in a long time, but last time I did try it, I wasn't too happy with it. Anyway, it's all relative.
I thought so as well at first. Looked at Zabbix years ago too and it had potential, but was not where I wanted it to be - so used Cacti for years until I stumbled upon Observium. Zabbix has come a long way from where it was years ago....