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Vikash D.
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Senior Associate Technology L1
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

I like the easy to configuration, nice graphs and accurate along with cutsom modifications you can do. You can host it in your own env. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

There is no such thing which I dislike but if we can add more features in munin that would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Munin:

Use yum install to install it. Always use latest version. Cron should not configure less than 5 minutes to fetch the data from agents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

I had to share the weekly, monthly and quaterly report of infra which I can share graphically and also trigger alerts if any service is critical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Munin?

Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends

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Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends


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Recent Munin Reviews

Verified User
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Munin - Efficient and lightweight monitoring"
Easy to deploy and configure. Simple to create own plugins. Lightweight and very efficient.
Alexey B.
AB
Alexey B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Munin it is really good monitoring system. Best for customization. Bash, Perl, Python supported."
Custom modules. Really easy in creation.
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Best Monitoring Tool"
With respect to view and graphical representation.
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Denys T.
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

munin-node-config command, when there's only one command can be used to add all available graphs for specified host/switch/equipment, munin-node-configure is awesome tool!

also munin-run is the #1 tool when you need to find out why some graph doesnt work, it helps to find out issue immediately.

also it doesnt annoy your to update it every time like any other software tools :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

graphs are rendered in PNG, but what I want - interactive graphs like in grafana :)

Because some times you need to rewrite rules of your graphs, and you cant do that in munin.

Grafana has an ability to change rules on the fly, in realtime, so please take a look at that amazing feature, implementing such feature can be amazingly useful.

Also want to have an ability to pre-render graphs for email alerts, and built-in ability to send alerts to messengers like fb, telegram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Munin:

Give it a try, it easy to setup, to maintain, and it's fast to enroll. It's beast open-source tool for graphs, monitoring & alerting.

You can setup it on-premises or use docker container, or in the cloud, it's fast enought. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

continues infrastructure monitoring, like measuring 95th percentile, bandwidth, latency, varios sensors - like temperature, UPS voltage, power meters, PDUs.

The benefits - it's simple and powerfull tool when you need to get graphs of any SNMP-capable device, or device that has some sort of API.

So monitoring is the primary problem that it solves (except any 3rd party nagios/icinga, with is just for redundancy). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

Easy to deploy and configure. Simple to create own plugins. Lightweight and very efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

Outdated look and feel. Difficult to "sell". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Munin:

Munin is ideal for deployments emphasizing on results. It has ultra low overhead and it is extremely low on resources. It is also easy to setup, use, maintain and enrich. Creating a custom plugin - that is if you do not find one that meets your needs from the extensive list of available plugins (native or community provided) - is quite easy and straightforward. Basically, Munin get's the job done. It is available on any *nix based distribution.

I recommend giving it a try and let it run for a couple of months. It does not have all the eye candy other monitoring solutions have, but that is what makes it so lightweight and efficient. Other monitoring solution "pollute" your results or even hinder efficient use of your infrastructure, in the sake of "interactive" menus and "load on demand" graphs. Although all these are nice to have - who does not love to see fancy artwork and - at the end of the day the tool is meant to do one very specific job. Once you really need it, it will provide easy access to all the information configured to it and which are necessary to proceed with your investaigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitoring made easy. Very efficient gathering of information/metrics, graphing them on demand.

Very useful on post-mortem analysis, capacity planning, troubleshooting and investigating for performance improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Miklos Q.
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IT Security Researcher & Penetration Tester
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

Clean, one-page view, granulated data, simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

Obtaining history data is not so easy, stats data cannot be easily filtered back in time. It's good for recent or real-time stats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

Querying servers statistical data for the near past, for e.g. behaviour, uptime. Others such as network statistics, disk activity for a given period can help to underline certain common behaviour patterns in order to find the issue or the root cause. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

George O.
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DevOps (Ansible Automation Engineer)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

So easy to install, configure and have it running in less than 30mins, big advantage for us understanding how to upgrade our boxes because of the stats we got from Munin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

Hmmm I don't remember having dislike about Munin, reading the documentation would enable you to move further doing customization and integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

In terms of capacity and sizing planning, we are able to calculate what server specs we need to install per store location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alexey B.
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Cloud Consultant
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

Custom modules. Really easy in creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

Not working with Docker containers (inside). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Munin:

You can use it widely for any type of infrastructure monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

Full infrastructure monitoring and alerting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FA
Senior Linux Administrator
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

Easy to integrate and lot of features and notifications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

Nothing see any such for now, have been a great experience with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Munin:

Strong recommend users to implement and use Munin for monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

Server and network infrastructure monitoring. It made easy to traceout the issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Surbanoski A.
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System Administrator
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

It can be runned on server itself, light product and easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

Graphs are hard to read, comparing for example to Prometheus very few things you can monitor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

Issues with apache, slow responding site Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Networking
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

Easy to setup and use. Opportunity to see the data for any time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

Generates too large log files when generating images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

Network infrastructure and servers monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plamen T.
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Network Administrator
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

Information is summary and look like good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

Have some configuration problems, like - cannot change ports description Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cannot change ports description Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Munin?

With respect to view and graphical representation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Munin?

Speed need to be increased so can deal with more data easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Munin solving and how is that benefiting you?

With respect to monitoring of the data coming every 15 mintues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.