I dropped my cacti installation and disabled all of it’s polling in favor of using collectd. I have a few of those graphs set up, but that’s not all migrated, so this isn’t valid anymore. Only noting it here because I’m going through my blog history and updating it for octopress ;) I had reimplemented some monitoring on my network and then I got to wondering if there was a revised version of the original xen-stats stuff I was using. Turns out there is. The site details instructions on how to set it up in cacti, and it works pretty well. I do wish there was a single graph to collect all for the hosts, instead of individual host graphs, but it’s not bad. Perhaps I’ll build a template that uses the data source and glues them all into one graph. But it provides reasonably accurate data, and it’s not difficult to set up.

Xen stats FTW!

(The UPS graphs I need to fix too, somethings broken in the PHP datasource it uses. So if you’ve got a reliable Network UPS Tools graphing source for cacti, other than this one, lemme know.)