The Better Cacti Templates project offers two things:

1. High-quality Cacti templates for various systems.
2. The real secret weapon: an easy method of making your own Cacti templates.

The project is also known as mysql-cacti-templates, for historical reasons. But it offers many more kinds of templates.

Make Your Own Templates

Want to make your own templates? It's easy! Just follow the instructions on the wiki. Everything is explained in great detail. The resulting templates will be far superior to templates made with the Cacti web interface, and it'll save you days of work. Without the tools in this project, making templates is an incredibly tedious and error-prone process that produces buggy, unportable, hard-to-upgrade templates.

Happy Users

Dealnews.com

"We switched from our own Memcached templates to these instead."
--Brian Moon

Snowball Effect

"I have never seen such elegant software and documentation in my life."
--Eugene van der Merwe, Founder and CEO

Support

Need help? First, try the FAQ document. Remember, most issues with these templates failing to graph anything are actually Cacti issues, so please ensure that you have eliminated every possible Cacti problem before asking for help with the templates.

You can find commercial support at Percona, where the developer works. Free support is provided on the mailing list (see the link at the right.)

Related Projects

These templates were developed at The Rimm-Kaufman Group and released as Free Software because of their generosity. If you don't use Cacti, you might be interested in these related projects for other monitoring systems:

• For SNMP/OpenNMS http://www.masterzen.fr/software-contributions/mysql-snmp-monitor-mysql-with-snmp/
• For Munin http://github.com/kjellm/munin-mysql/tree/master
• For Zabbix, http://code.google.com/p/appaloosa-zabbix-templates/