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Monitorix (A Lightweight System and Network) Monitoring Tool for Linux

By Ravi Saive Under: Monitoring Tools On: April 17, 2013

Monitorix is an open source, free and most powerful lightweight tool designed to monitor system and network resources in Linux. It regularly collects system and network data and display the information in graphs using its own web interface. Monitorix allows to monitor overall system performance and also help in detecting bottlenecks, failures, unwanted long response times and other abnormal activities.

It is written in Perl language and licensed under the terms of GNU (General Public License) as published by the FSP (Free Software Foundation). It uses RRDtool to generate graphs and display them using web interface.

This tool is specifically created for monitoring Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora based Linux systems, but today it runs on many different flavors of GNU/Linux distributions and even it runs on UNIX systems like OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD.

The development of Monitorix is currently in active state and adding new features, new graphs, new updates and fixing bugs to offer a great tool for Linux system/network administration.

Monitorix Features

System load average, active processes, per-processor kernel usage, global kernel usage and memory allocation.
Monitors Disk drive temperatures and health.
Filesystem usage and I/O activity of filesystems.
Network traffic usage up to 10 network devices.
System services including SSH, FTP, Vsftpd, ProFTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, POP3, VirusMail and Spam.
MTA Mail statistics including input and output connections.
Network port traffic including TCP, UDP, etc.
FTP statistics with log file formats of FTP servers.
Apache statistics of local or remote servers.
MySQL statistics of local or remote servers.
Squid Proxy Web Cache statistics.
Fail2ban statistics.
Monitor remote servers (Multihost).
Ability to view statistics in graphs or in plain text tables per day, week, month or year.
Ability to zoom graphs for better view.
Ability to define the number of graphs per row.
Built-in HTTP server.

For a full list of new features and updates, please check out the official feature page.

Installing Monitorix on a RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Linux

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