Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon: ... It's not even close to relevant.

Sun, 03 Jun 2007

Nagios - Simple Trender
Continuing the release of my Nagios code - here's my Nagios Simple Trender. It parses Nagios logs and builds a horizontal barchart for host outages, service warnings and criticals. It's nothing fancy (and the results are a little unpretty) but it does make the attention seeking services and hosts very easy to find.

While the tool isn't that technically complex I've found it useful in justifying my time on certain parts of the infrastructure. Being able to show how bad NTP is for example (we had 216 NTP sync problems last month, this month we had 36; and most of those are one machine with a bad clock) on a very simple chart makes it easier to get buy in from above. And next month you can show them how much of a positive impact the work had.

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