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Munin

PnP networked resource monitoring tool that can help to answer the what just happened to kill our performance
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What is Munin?

Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.
Munin is a tool in the Monitoring Tools category of a tech stack.
Munin is an open source tool with 2K GitHub stars and 471 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Munin's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Munin?

Companies
22 companies reportedly use Munin in their tech stacks, including Walls.io, IWB, and Ebury.

Developers
50 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Munin.

Munin Integrations

Pros of Munin
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Good defaults
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Extremely fast to install
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Alerts can trigger any command line program
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Adheres to traditional Linux standards
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Easy to write custom plugins

Munin Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Munin?
Cacti
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
Nagios
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License.
Ganglia
It is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters.
collectd
collectd gathers statistics about the system it is running on and stores this information. Those statistics can then be used to find current performance bottlenecks (i.e. performance analysis) and predict future system load (i.e. capacity planning). Or if you just want pretty graphs of your private server and are fed up with some homegrown solution you're at the right place, too.
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Munin's Followers
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