Jeff R. Allen - Cricket is a high performance, extremely flexible system
for monitoring trends in time-series data. Cricket was expressly developed
to help network managers visualize and understand the traffic on their
networks, but it can be used all kinds of other jobs, as well.
Cricket has two components, a collector and a grapher. The collector runs
from cron every 5 minutes (or at a different rate, if you want), and stores
data into a data structure managed by
RRDtool
(RRDtool
Homepage). Later, when you want to check on the data you have collected,
you can use a web-based interface to view graphs of the data.
Cricket reads a set of config files called a config tree. The config tree
expresses everything Cricket needs to know about the types of data to be
collected, how to get it, and from which targets it should collect data. The
config tree is designed to minimize redundant information, making it compact
and easy to manage, and preventing silly mistakes from occurring due to
copy-and-paste errors.
Cricket is written entirely in Perl and
is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
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