Thursday, February 21, 2013
4:44 PM

Observium vs. Cacti v2

Recently, I have setup an observium server for our office. After about two weeks of operation, here's what I think of them-

Observium

Pros:

  • Has thousands of templates.
  • Auto discovers which templates are applicable for a host
  • Comparatively better interface

Cons:

  • Comparatively more processor intensive.
  • Does not work without DNS (/etc/hosts tuning is helpful)
  • Adding users and controlling view can be tricky
  • The bandwidth graph of cacti is better
  • I could not find any "zoom" feature for the graphs

Cacti

Pros:

  • Very good for bandwidth graphs.
  • Very good for user portals and controlling user views.
  • Easily customizable graph trees

Cons:

  • No auto discovery feature
  • Adding new templates can be tricky, very tricky.
  • Needs 64 bit counters for bandwidth graphs over 100 Mbps. Learnt it the hard way.

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