On: How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool

[jethro_tell]

'Dashboards around the office show how the system is performing at any given time.'

Probably was someone's full time job for a couple months.

When was this written? Why is there no year in the date?

[__jal → jethro_tell]

Granted, HDMI can be infuriating, but months?

More seriously, you can set this up with KPIs in a day with Zabbix. A week, if you've never dealt with Zabbix, which is admittedly somewhat complex compared to some of the others.

[lilbobbytables → __jal]

Depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

But setting up a data warehouse that builds out the KPIs you're looking for along with a dashboard to display them (the easy part, for sure) can certainly take over a month.