Tag Archives: munin

There are no seasons in the datacenter

Posted on 2014-03-22 by Jethro Carr

I always like reviewing the Munin temperature graphs between my co-located server and my home server, the temperature range fluctuations in non-air conditioned rooms is always quite interesting – as much as 25 degrees Celsius over the course of the … Continue reading →

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Holy Relic of the Server Farm

Posted on 2013-04-23 by Jethro Carr

At work we’ve been using New Relic, a popular software-as-a-service monitoring platform to monitor a number of our servers and applications. Whilst I’m always hesitant of relying on external providers and prefer an open source solution where possible, the advantages … Continue reading →

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Great server crash of 2012

Posted on 2012-12-26 by Jethro Carr

In a twist of irony, shortly after boarding my flight in Sydney for my trip back to Wellington to escape the heat of the AU summer, my home NZ server crashed due to the massive 30 degree heatwave experienced in … Continue reading →

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Munin 2.0.x on EL 5/6 with IPv6

Posted on 2012-11-11 by Jethro Carr

I’ve been looking forwards to Munin 2 for a while – whilst Munin has historically been a great monitoring resource, it’s always been a little bit too fragile for my liking and the 2.x series sounds like it will correct … Continue reading →

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Munin Performance

Posted on 2012-05-26 by Jethro Carr

Munin is a popular open source network resource monitoring tool which polls the hosts on your network for statistics for various services, resources and other attributes. A typical deployment will see Munin being used to monitor CPU usage, memory usage, … Continue reading →

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