Ganglia is an open-source, scalable and distributed monitoring system for large clusters. It collects, aggregates and provides time-series views of tens of machine-related metrics such as CPU, memory, storage, network usage. You can see Ganglia in action at UC Berkeley Grid. Ganglia is also a popular solution for monitoring Hadoop and HBase clusters, since Hadoop … Continue reading Ganglia configuration for a small Hadoop cluster and some troubleshooting