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Custom Munin Graphs

Munin graphs are often too ugly to show off on public-facing pages, and while the control panel is usually enough to get bare information from graphs, customizing these to become interactive and fancy may prove to be quite a task.

Munin Google Charts

I’m going to use Google Charts to output the number of requests per second my server is processing (the data is a snapshot and does not change in this case). Fortunately, all data collected by the Munin master is stored in RRD format and can be retrieved simply by using the rrdtool fetch command, or by using the PHP RRD library if you’re using PHP, or python-rrdtool if you’re using Python.

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Nagios and `service restart`

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

This is usually the goto solution for failing/frozen services. Something’s wrong let’s just restart whatever. It gets as absurd as running a restart cronjob every hour or two! Of course restarting helps, but it’s not the best solution. It’s often better to find out what’s wrong to begin with, why the thing that is supposed to work is not working anymore.

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