Performance Monitoring with NETWAYSGrapherV2 for Nagios

The original NagiosGrapher is one of the most popular tools for displaying and storing Nagios performance data. This new NETWAYSGrapherV2 is the newest graphing addon for Nagios and any other software. It plots charts and graphs automatically from returned Nagios plugin output, so administrators can make performance analyses of their network and applications easier.

What’s different about this grapher?

Aside from the “real” real time charts, the dashboards and automated housekeeping are pretty exclusive.

Dashboards allow the user to set multiple graphs they need for their daily tasks onto one ‘screen set’ for easy viewing – which can be shared with other users too. The collected data is automatically aggregated in to hourly, weekly, monthly or yearly sets in an ongoing housekeeping in the background so they can be easily called up later for graphing. there are a few user friendly features such as the ‘drag & drop’ multi-graphs, Ajax search, and different display methods with navigation toggle and full view functions.

With the ‘drag & drop’ multi-graphs, the user can compare for example the bandwidths of two machines by simply clicking on one chart and dropping it on the other. Also, users can essentially manage themselves because all user and user group management is done through the web interface. A handy feature for larger companies with many administrators or for managed services companies to offer customers views of their Nagios systems.

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