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.