For years I have been using Nagios and later Icinga for monitoring my few servers and services. However working the setup did not fit perfectly. What I needed was:
- monitoring for very few servers (2-3)
- live check for very few services (10-20)
- easy and straight forward configuration via terminal
- set the time/interval for each check
- directly define a command to be executed for each check
- nice web overview without too much fuzz about it and not much of an attack surface
- XMPP notifications
- nagios plugin compatibility
What I can live without: - host groups - notification groups - complicated and extensive configuration - logging - remote check execution - a daemon
Even though there are many (many many many) monitoring solutions available, most are packed with features not needed here and rather difficult to deactivate. So I decided to write a simple and slim alternative:
QMON.
