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We use Nagios with DNX, tried and proven.
Please use search for this, or google. Nagios (icingina) + munin is the way to go, maybe with pingdom or monitor.us for external.
False alarms are most of the time wrongly configures thresholds...
We use a nice combo of Status2k, Binarycanary, Uptimerobot and Cacti.
--Roel.
Apologies if this has already been posted, I did search for "monitoring".
I would rather have community feedback from VPS's specialists here than sales speak from Google, if this is not relevant then could and admin remove this post please.
I have found Zabbix and sysmond to now, one at each end of the spectrum for complexity.
Good point about thresholds, I guess this is the only reason really, thanks.
I've tried zabbix, cacti and status2k but I find nagios to work the best for me. Get about 6 "false" positives a day, but that is because that website takes 15 sec to load and my critical threshold is set to 12 seconds...
As for me, I just use simple Smokeping to monitor ping and packet loss to most of my VPSes; and for the boxes I don't care much about, other than if they're sort of up or not (either free or on the cancellation track), I use http://www.uptimerobot.com/
P.S. When you mentioned internal, I thought you meant "to a VPS provider";
And the answer would be, according to my experience, most don't monitor shit. It's sooooo annoying when the first time a host even hears that their node/network is down, is from my (a customer's) ticket.
We use Observium + Pingdom for our solution. Observium is mainly for monitoring server performance and Pingdom for up/down.
Another one you can look at would be Zenoss
http://community.zenoss.org/index.jspa
I am liking the look of Observium and its got a cute mouse as a mascot
Observium is pretty awesome. I've been meaning to install it for myself, but haven't gotten around to it. Have seen other people use it and it's definitely slick.
Observium gets a bit unwieldy once you start having a lot of devices in it. I really wish they would implement some kind of editor.
munin and an extremely sensitive ping monitoring script I found on LET. If one of it's 5 ping packets are dropped it reports it as "down"
Why so sensitive?
I would highly recommend http://www.mmonit.com
We use our own custom monitoring system as seen here
http://status.nodedeploy.com/