Monitoring

dominicl

I've noticed some people are starting to set up monitoring networks for all of their VPS's. What do you guys use for monitoring your VPS's and what do you host it on?

Thanks

dominicl

Anyone? what do you guys use for monitoring?

jarland

PHP Server Monitor Plus

Toying with openstatus but I think I keep messing something up and the uptime field is blank. Right now I host it on one of the vps but I'm going to end up hosting it on my shared hosting server.

Robert

At risk of repeating myself from other threads, I use Zabbix. I have a dedicated server set up with it on. I plan on allowing free accounts once I finish setting up a self service portal in PHP. If anyone wants a free account, let me know. I'll have to add the hosts manually, but you'll have access to the monitoring dashboard and email alerts.

miTgiB

http://www.centreon.com/

Jack

I use openstatus;

http://status.xjack.pro

However people prefer munin.

Jack

@miTgiB said: http://www.centreon.com/

Their site has broken links.

dominicl

works for me?

Jack

@dominicl said: works for me?

http://www.centreon.com/Content-Download/donwload-centreon

we recommend that you review Centreon's System Requirements

Broken link.

sleddog

@Jack said: I use openstatus;

http://status.xjack.me

When I click on a '1 hr' or '3hr' link (etc.) all I get is a spinner.

Taylor

@Jack said: Broken link.

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https://forums.dotvps.net/

Brokenish link.

dominicl

@Jack said: Broken link.

Ah, yea I did notice that. Sorry

Jack

@sleddog said: When I click on a '1 hr' or '3hr' link (etc.) all I get is a spinner.

@nickmoeck can fix that I think it's a bug

Jack

@Taylor said: https://forums.dotvps.net/

Brokenish link.

@dominicl also told me about that because it's hurting you so much inside I shall go and spend the next hour installing vanilla on a VM Just for you.

I hope you're going to activate if I put one up haha!

@Taylor

Taylor

@Jack said: I hope you're going to activate if I put one up haha!

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I may be, if I get a MB worth of VPS every post :P

Jack

@Taylor said: I may be, if I get a MB worth of VPS every post :P

Hmm..

Anyway get back on topic!

Taz

Status2k.

sleddog

@dominicl said: What do you guys use for monitoring your VPS's

Just a thought... "monitoring" is different things....

You can monitor availability, e.g., port 80 on server xyz, and track its status over time (as a % uptime/downtime).

Or you can monitor performance, e.g., load, memory, swap, and track those variables over time.

Some apps do one, others do the other, I guess some do both :)

So when you say "monitor" you need to think about what it is you're concerned about monitoring....

Jack

@NinjaHawk said: Status2k

looks meh.

justinb

http://observium.org/wiki/Main_Page for performance pingdom on all hosts for uptime/latency

miTgiB

@justinb said: pingdom on all hosts for uptime/latency

Only if you like false results

jarland

@miTgiB Lets be fair. Pingdom is extremely accurate. Until it isn't.

justinb

@miTgiB said: Only if you like false results

Haven't gotten a false result yet.. it's a free service anyways

miTgiB

@jarland said: Pingdom is extremely accurate. Until it isn't.

I have zero faith in it. I don't know how many tickets I get with people that depend on pingdom and claiming I was down when there was no issue. Occasionally pingdom gets lucky with a correct down report, but they are rare.

KuJoe

External Monitoring: BinaryCanary (waiting for our new server for a custom monitoring script) and scrd+status+munin (results). Internal Monitoring: scrd+status+munin (results), custom monitoring script, and Observium.

camarg

I use cacti along with nagios for some servers.

@miTgiB said: people

maybe that's the problem :)

sleddog

Demo of my availability monitor: http://199.96.82.38/pung/

Jack

@sleddog looks nice how do i get it?

GetKVM_Ash

@Jack said: @sleddog looks nice how do i get it?

+1, thats some nice work.

HalfEatenPie

@GetKVM_Ash said: @Jack said: @sleddog looks nice how do i get it?

comment Inception.

Anywyas yeah dude that looks awesome.... Are you going to open source that? ;)

sleddog

Yes, OSS, WIR :) I originally write it ~6 years ago for internal use. I thought I'd clean it up a bit for public use, but the "clean up" turned into a rewrite.

Meanwhile, guess who monitors for tcp connections with no data, and eventually blocks for an hour? I'm guessing WHT comes up again around 15:14 NDT :)