11 Nov 06 Revisted: Zabbix

So about a month ago I wrote about Zabbix. Well it has been a month and after getting the corporate firewall team in Hightstown, NJ to open up specific ports between the two data centers we got Zabbix rolled out to our production environments. So far so good, if I even stop the Apache process for 30 seconds I get paged on my phone. We have severity levels setup so for example if the partition is 80% full it’ll email us as opposed to send SMS messages to our phone. However if a ping fails 3 times in a row then it goes nuts and hits everyone with a SMS.

The “Gooeyness” is useful to show management our uptimes and loads, plus it just looks purty. I love the CLI but I don’t mind a pretty GUI.

Screenies, click to blow up.

Note: This graph helped us actually discover a configuration problem as we were hitting our max connection limit (1500 per machine) frequently.

Edited: more screenshots.