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.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Easy to install.
- Scalable – monitor all-scales installations, from your home Raspberry Pi up to a 100+ nodes cluster.
- Real-time alerts – polls your servers once every 5 minutes. Don’t wait any longer to be notified when something goes wrong.
- Flexible – choose from 500+ available plugins to monitor every service running on your server.
- Extensible – write your own plugins in the language of your choice to supervise whatever you want.
Website: munin-monitoring.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Munin developers
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Munin is written in Perl. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| System Monitoring Tools | |
|---|---|
| Prometheus | Systems and service monitoring system |
| Nagios | Host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems |
| OpenNMS | Enterprise grade network monitoring platform |
| LibreNMS | Fully featured network monitoring system |
| SigNoz | Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems |
| ZABBIX | All-in-one 24x7 free monitoring solution |
| Jaeger | Distributed tracing system |
| Beszel | Lightweight server monitoring platform |
| Loki | Horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system |
| Cockpit | Sysadmin login session in a web browser |
| Coroot | Observability platform for monitoring cloud-native apps |
| Monit | Utility for monitoring processes, files, directories and filesystems |
| HyperDX | Cloud-based production monitoring and debugging tool |
| NetXMS | Network and infrastructure monitoring and management system |
| FreeNATS | Automatic network status testing, alerting and reporting package |
| Cacti | Web-based frontend to RRDtool |
| Monitorix | Lightweight system monitoring tool |
| Icinga | Monitoring platform with a powerful configuration language |
| Checkmk | IT monitoring platform |
| Munin | Networked resource monitoring tool designed to be plug and play |
| Shinken | Flexible and scalable monitoring framework |
| openITCOCKPIT | Comprehensive infrastructure monitoring and management platform |
| Pandora FMS | Flexible monitoring system |
| Xymon | System for monitoring of hosts and networks |
| Mon | General-purpose problem alerting system |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 LinuxLinks helps you discover the best free and open source software for Linux. Explore our extensive collection of recommended applications, including alternatives to popular proprietary software.We also publish software reviews, Linux tutorials, hardware reviews, free programming books and articles covering the wider open source community. Browse our Linux resources to discover more. Know a useful free and open source Linux application we haven't covered? Suggest a program for inclusion. Has your software been featured on LinuxLinks? Display one of our Featured on LinuxLinks badges on your website or GitHub README. |
Please read our Comment Policy before commenting.