Cacti®: Service Monitoring Server on Ubuntu 18.04

Cacti allows a user to poll services at predetermined intervals and graph the resulting data. It is generally used to graph time-series data of metrics such as CPU load and network bandwidth utilization. A common usage is to monitor network traffic by polling a network switch or router interface via Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

To handle data gathering, you can feed cacti the paths to any external script/command along with any data that the user will need to "fill in", cacti will then gather this data in a cron-job and populate a MySQL database/the round robin archives.

Data Sources can also be created, which correspond to actual data on the graph. For instance, if a user would want to graph the ping times to a host, you could create a data source utilizing a script that pings a host and returns it's value in milliseconds. After defining options for RRDTool such as how to store the data you will be able to define any additional information that the data input source requires, such as a host to ping in this case. Once a data source is created, it is automatically maintained at 5 minute intervals.

The front end can handle multiple users, each with its own graph sets, so it is sometimes used by web hosting providers (especially dedicated servers, virtual private servers, and colocation providers) to display bandwidth statistics for their customers.

Tidal Media Inc. is glad to provide you with Cacti®: Service Monitoring Server Image, fully pre-configured and cloud-hardened to give you the perfect performance in Azure Environments.

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