Enhance your munin load graph

This is the default output of the munin load plugin. I’ve patched it to add a permanent blue line indicating the number of cpu of the server. The resulted graph looks like this : You can download the patched plugin here. It is tested with Linux and FreeBSD.

 

Munin and Use of uninitializer value in eval

On some of freshly installed servers (Debian Etch), I encountered these error messages in /var/log/munin/munin-node.log: Use of uninitialized value in eval {block} exit at /usr/sbin/munin-node line 456, <CHILD> line 8. What a great error message 🙂 After digging into Google results, I found it was just a problem with host_name variable in the configuration. Default …