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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:41:54 -0400
From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
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Tom Wilcox wrote:
> Any suggestions for good monitoring software for linux?

By monitoring, do you mean for alerting purposes or for graphing 
purposes?  Nagios is the only reasonable choice for the former, while 
doing at best a mediocre job at the latter.  For the later, I've found 
that Munin does a good job of monitoring Linux and PostgreSQL in its out 
of the box configuration, in terms of providing useful activity graphs.  
And you can get it to play nice with Nagios.

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