Munin

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free

Open source

Yes (GPL-2.0)

Self-hosted

Yes

Launched

2003

Status

Active

Website

munin-monitoring.org

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Server and infrastructure monitoring checklist

5 of 10 confirmed in Munin's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Infrastructure.

• + Host agent Yes
• + Agentless checks Yes
• ? Windows hosts Not confirmed
• ? Auto-discovery Not confirmed
• ? Process and service checks Not confirmed
• ? Log collection Not confirmed
• ? Containers Not confirmed
• + Alerting with notifications Yes
• + Dashboards Yes
• + Plugins or integrations Yes

munin-node agent plus SNMP plugins; alerting is basic (thresholds, 'Let Munin croak alarm').

Checked against: munin-monitoring.org, guide.munin-monitoring.org, github.com

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