This stack isn’t trying to be fancy. It collects logs, and it shows logs. But when that’s all that’s needed — it’s more than enough. There’s setup time, yes. But once it runs, it stays reliable. Which, in production, counts for more than flash.
Once running, it tends to stay out of the way… until something goes wrong. And then it becomes indispensable.
Shinken was born out of a simple frustration: classic Nagios couldn’t scale, and patching it didn’t get any easier. Instead of rewriting everything from scratch, the idea was to keep what worked — the config model, the plugins — and build a more flexible, distributed backend around it. In practice, that meant splitting up responsibilities into modules that could run on different machines, and moving the whole thing to Python.
VictoriaMetrics is a revolutionary tool for monitoring, scaling, managing your data. With its cutting-edge technology it proves to be superior to other monitoring software, making it unmatched at achieving efficient scalability, compatibility, and accessibility
LibreNMS is a cutting-edge tool designed to maintain and support network suitable for corporate and personal use. It’s advanced set of functional ensures impeccable results in network management including hardware and software tracking. With no secrets kept it allows full accessibility to what is happening under the hood with its open-source code.
If you’re looking to keep tabs on system performance — in real time, historically, and across a range of environments — this trio has you covered. Glances handles the metrics collection, InfluxDB stores the data efficiently, and Grafana brings it all to life with flexible, powerful visualizations. Simple, open-source, and surprisingly scalable.
