If I worked for a startup, that mentality would be fine. You&#39;re right, Observium is not that important, thats what I use Nagios for.<div><br></div><div>No need to bash my advice, nobody has to take it.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Morgan<br><div><br></div><div>You&#39;re right, Observium is not mission critical, thats what nagios is for. BUT, I have noticed when Observium shits on itself, its <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Adam Armstrong <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:adama@memetic.org" target="_blank">adama@memetic.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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    <div>On 16/10/2012 16:46, Morgan McLean
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      Observium is great, don&#39;t get me wrong, but its probably best to
      install updates to a sandbox environment before blindly updating a
      production observium install. Just my .02<br>
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    Except for the fact that observium is never mission critical, so
    what&#39;s the point?<br>
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    a) waste an hour of your life every SVN update<br>
    b) potentially lose a few hours data if an update breaks something<br>
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    ITIL(or similar) is nice (no it&#39;s not, it&#39;s fucking retarded), but
    you should apply some common sense on where it is best to spend your
    time, otherwise you will go insane.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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    adam.<br>
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