@alexhall it really depends. You can get with much simpler stacks. I am still using Nagios and it brings me what I need in about 90mb of RAM.
(Not that I would recommend it in general.)
Graphs and distributed logs are very nice, but you often don't need them. All the old monitoring software still works.
You mentioned log monitoring. I was using Graylog some time ago and it was quite nice and simple too.
@coder The problem is that this is for work, so it has to be comprehensive, look good, and be somewhat industry-standard.
@alexhall I learned Nagios on a quite big company with large enterprise customers, but yeah, I know what you mean. You can use Grafana on top of anything (I've done that with Nagios), but the industry standard part... although I expect that a ton of Fortune 500 companies are likely using traditional monitoring tools... if you're getting dragged into Prometheus and such, well, it sucks, but if they ask for it...
