Alerting system for Munin

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Published on 2012-12-07T07:10:14Z Indexed on 2012/12/10 5:08 UTC
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I am very satisfied with munin as a monitoring tool (as I only have a simple 2-server setup) but its alerting system is very annoying as you can only configure it to send an e-mail upon every check which generates a warning or an error.

It seems like the only option is to use Nagios but in Debian it has Apache as a dependency and I already use nginx on my monitoring machine.

All I want is to have the possibility to silence/acknowledge the alarm while I am working on a fix, so that I don't get bombarded with e-mails. Nagios seems like an oversized solution for that anyway.

Is there any simple solution for that or am I the only one who feels like he needs such a tool?

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