Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.

In Norse mythology Hugin and Munin are the ravens of the god king Odin. They flew all over Midgard for him, seeing and remembering, and later telling him.

"Munin" means "memory".

Waiting for Munin 2.0

These blog posts should be turned into proper documentation inside this wiki:

2010-07-23: Waiting for Munin 2.0 - Custom data retention plans enables keeping more data at high precision, and is quite useful when zooming.

2010-07-12: Waiting for Munin 2.0 - A native SSH transport enable easy management of munin monitoring with only one already-used protocol: SSH.

2010-06-26: Waiting for Munin 2.0 - Performance Asynchronous update and A poor mans munin-node might be helpful too.

News

2012-05-10: The sixth Release Candidate for Munin 2.0 has been released. It can be downloaded from our SVN tags/2.0-rc6 and from https://sourceforge.net/projects/munin/files/dev/2.0-rc/. The changelog can be found at tags/2.0-rc6/ChangeLog. It fixed several security bugs and should be the last RC before 2.0.

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2012-04-11: The fifth Release Candidate for Munin 2.0 has been released. It can be downloaded from our SVN tags/2.0-rc5 and from https://sourceforge.net/projects/munin/files/dev/2.0-rc/. The changelog can be found at tags/2.0-rc5/ChangeLog.

2012-03-24: The fourth Release Candidate for Munin 2.0 has been released. It can be downloaded from our SVN tags/2.0-rc4 and from https://sourceforge.net/projects/munin/files/dev/2.0-rc/. The changelog can be found at tags/2.0-rc4/ChangeLog. It fixed a quite nasty typo that renders munin-update unusable.

2012-03-14: Munin 1.4.7 has been released. This is a bugfix release. Changelog is here. It can be downloaded from our SVN (tags/1.4.7) and from Sourceforge. Thanks to everyone that contributed to this release.

2011-07-07: Munin 1.4.6 has been released. This is a bugfix release. Changelog is here. It can be downloaded from our SVN (tags/1.4.6) and from Sourceforge. Thanks to everyone that contributed to this release.

2011-07-04: A little writeup about using Munin 2.0 with ssh in different ways

2010-07-18: Espen Braastad writes about munincollector-ng - a meta munin

About Munin

Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort.

Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, applications, weather measurements and whatever comes to mind. It makes it easy to determine "what's different today" when a performance problem crops up. It makes it easy to see how you're doing capacity-wise on any resources.

Munin uses the excellent RRDTool (written by Tobi Oetiker) and the framework is written in Perl, while plugins may be written in any language. Munin has a master/node architecture in which the master connects to all the nodes at regular intervals and asks them for data. It then stores the data in RRD files, and (if needed) updates the graphs. One of the main goals has been ease of creating new plugins (graphs).

This site is a wiki as well as a project management tool. We appreciate any contributions to the documentation. While this is the homepage of the Munin project, we will still make all releases through Sourceforge.

Contributing

Munin can always need more help. Please see the list of tasks if you're looking for something to do.

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Supported OSes

Munin is written in Perl and plugins are easy to write. "Porting" to or from any Unix platform is quite easy if you have some Perl/shell/sysadmin experience. Currently we have plugins for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX - and of course cross-platform plugins.

In addition you can use alternate Munin-node implementations on embedded systems such as :

And Windows.

Support

Documentation

Mailing lists

If you use Munin, please join our mailinglist:
subscribe to the munin-users list (English)
subscribe to the munin-users-de list (German)
subscribe to the munin-users-jp list (Japanese)

Please also consult the list archives. Your Munin issue may have been discussed already.
munin-users list archive (English)
munin-users-de list archive (German)
munin-users-jp list archive (Japanese)

Internet Relay Chat

If you use IRC, please join #munin on the OFTC network.

If you prefer the FreeNode network, we did setup a bidirectional relay bot that connect both #munin channels. It's name is "m-r-b" (as Munin Relay Bot).

Examples

Download

All versions are available from Sourceforge

Munin is also available in FreeBSD ports and in repositories for (at least) the following Linux distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora (Extras), Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mandriva, and Gentoo.