Chapter 1. Opsview Core Basics

Having a monitoring system that works well has become one of the most important prerequisites of any modern IT environment, and with operations expanding and changing quickly, we need a monitoring system that is as flexible and adaptive as possible.

In times where we are seeing companies move to the cloud or using a more service-based environment, effectively monitoring all these various systems is of paramount importance.

In this chapter we will look into some of the concepts behind Opsview and how to install and get started using the various tools provided by Opsview to help us deploy a simple monitoring solution.

Important concepts

Opsview offers an easy to use, highly configurable, and robust monitoring platform, ...

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