Category Archives: monitoring

Munin-cron overlap fix

Recently I’ve migrated my munin instance onto a Linode virtual machine. Having fewer resources was a potential source of problems. One of the problems that I ran into early on was that sometimes a munin-cron run would still be executing … Continue reading

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Part II: The Munin-master

Hopefully you’ve read the first part(Munin-Node), and have one or more nodes already configured. It’s alright if the munin-node is running on the same machine as the munin-master. The master is more of a pain to set up than the … Continue reading

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Part I: Setting up Munin-Node

After becoming increasingly frustrated with cacti’s lack of sane repeatable configuration and extensibility I began to explore other options. Munin showed the most promise and compatibility with many of the services we run at the OSL, such as memcached and … Continue reading

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