Performance Data Usage

[admingirl]

Hello,
Good day!
Just a general inquiry.

Roughly how much storage space required in Nagios server to keep 1 Month of data from 1 Server.

Please advise.

Thanks and have a great day!
Ann

[tmcdonald]

That's almost impossible to answer with the information provided.

If you are only doing a ping check every hour, not much space at all. If you are checking the status of every process, every minute, plus CPU, memory, and disk usage, then it will be a lot more.

My advice has always been to set up the checks you will be running, let it go for a week or so, then extrapolate out from there. That will give you a more accurate answer than we could guess at here.

[admingirl]

Hello,
Thanks for your response.

We are basically doing CPU Usage, Memory Usage and Ping.

Reason being is that clients wants to know roughly so it can be part of their budget allocation. So roughly how many GB. Will it take up 2GB a month?

[dwhitfield]

As you can see below, it depends on the check (and of course check frequency). However, I would not anticipate 2GB. Of course, as was mentioned, the best thing to do is actually run the check for some time (even a day!) and then extrapolate from there.

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[d@centosserver localhost]$ ll -h
total 6.0M
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 1.1M Jun 18 13:20 Current_Load.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 3.5K Jun 18 13:20 Current_Load.xml
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 376K Jun 18 13:16 Current_Users.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 2.1K Jun 18 13:16 Current_Users.xml
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 1.5M Jun 18 13:20 _HOST_.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 3.9K Jun 18 13:20 _HOST_.xml
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 751K Jun 18 13:17 HTTP.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 2.7K Jun 18 13:17 HTTP.xml
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 751K Jun 18 13:18 PING.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 2.7K Jun 18 13:18 PING.xml
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 376K Jun 18 13:18 Root_Partition.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 2.1K Jun 18 13:18 Root_Partition.xml
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 376K Jun 18 13:19 SSH.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 2.0K Jun 18 13:19 SSH.xml
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 376K Jun 18 13:20 Swap_Usage.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 2.1K Jun 18 13:20 Swap_Usage.xml
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 376K Jun 18 13:21 Total_Processes.rrd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 2.1K Jun 18 13:21 Total_Processes.xml

[admingirl]

Hi,
Thanks for your response, appreciate it and noted on this.'

You guys are the best.

Thanks,
Ann

[tmcdonald]

Did you have any further (related) questions or are we okay to close this thread?