Choosing a monitoring system for a dynamically scaling environment: Nagios v. Zabbix

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Published on 2010-05-17T15:10:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 15:21 UTC
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When operating in the cloud and scaling boxes automatically, there are certain monitoring issues that one experiences. Sometimes we might be monitoring 10 boxes and sometimes 100. The machines will scale up and down based on a demand.

Right now, I think the best solution to this is to choose a monitoring solution that will instantiation of targets via calls to an API. But, is this really the best? I like the idea of dynamic discovery, but that is also a problem in the cloud seeing that the targets are not all in the same subnet.

What monitoring solutions allow for a scaling environment like this? Zabbix currently has a draft API but I have been unable to fund a similar API for Nagios. Is there a similar API for Nagios?

Anyone have any alternate suggestions besides Nagios and Zabbix?

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