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I still have my brown Acquia T-shirt that was distributed at the March, 2009 Washington DC DurpalCon. On the back it says "Free as in beer". Well, the free bit still applies to Acquia Drupal, and the various stacks which are useful for various operating systems and environments to a lot of people. But now Acquia is mumbling in their beer: no more freebie community style accounts, you gotta start paying for site monitoring via the Acquia Network once the initial 30 day trial period ends. OK, it does include goodies like Acquia search, and other stuff. But to get a solution that is truly free as in beer, and a richer solution at that, it's clearly Nagios time for us dogs.
This is a detailed howto article, but you can skip the parts that you don't need easily, and it will get you up and running with an enviable Nagios Drupal Monitoring station. Just jump in wherever:read more