How To Install the Munin Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 14.04

Introduction

Munin is a system, network, and infrastructure monitoring application that provides information in graphs through a web browser. It is designed around a client-server architecture and can be configured to monitor the machine it's installed on (the Munin master) and any number of client machines, which in Munin parlance, are called Munin nodes.

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Munin Plugins for MongoDB

Plugins

• mongo_ops : operations/second
• mongo_mem : mapped, virtual and resident memory usage
• mongo_btree : btree access/misses/etc...
• mongo_conn : current connections
• mongo_lock : write lock info
• mongo_docs : number of documents (inserted, updated...)

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Adding Apache Reporting To Munin

When you first install a Munin node it will try to install as many plugins as it can so that it can report on different things. For example, if you have a Varnish server running then Munin will detect this and enable the plugins so that it can report on the activity of Varnish. Once you have started getting data through to your Munin server then you can turn on plugins on the nodes to get more data.

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