After trying out Zabbix, I’m back to munin and monit for my (small) monitoring needs.

I think the beautiful rrd images of munin are just unbeatable and monit has never let me down; you can easily restart daemons - something I was still configuring in zabbix. And our Ubuntu Certified Professional Course also has a few slides on munin. This was the last push I needed.

I was still a bit rusty so I just followed a howto to do the initial configuration.