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Monitoring the servers
thecreator_
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Hello to everyone,
I am constantly researching to improve myself in system management and lowendtalk is a really great platform.
I was wondering something today.
I know there are many web hosting providers and professional system administrators here. So how do you monitor dozens of servers and web hosting accounts (shared hosting, vps, vds etc.)? Are there any programs that make tracking and management easier?
I'm also really curious how world giants like bluehost, hostinger, hostgator monitor and track thousands of servers 
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Hetrixtools? Zabbix ?
Bigger companies will use custom software
I haven't heard of these before, but I'll look into them right away.
I recently found monspark.com
Seems new and promising. Their discord is available, have a decent roadmap, even a LTD on appsumo
PHP Server Monitor
~ Very basic, but quick, effortless setup.
Uptime Kuma
~ self hosted "uptimerobot"-like monitoring
I use Prometheus for internal (white box) monitoring. Many apps have existing exporters or you can roll your own, e.g. for Django: https://blog.snapdragon.cc/posts/2022-12-monitor-django-with-prometheus/
The other thing you ask about is blackbox monitoring. I.e. you just monitor from the outside. That's good for monitoring shared hosting. For this I like to use Uptime Kuma. Mostly because it also includes a simple status page and alerts. Can be run via Docker or on PikaPods with a few clicks: https://www.pikapods.com/pods?run=uptime-kuma
Hetrixtools+uptimerobot+uptime kuma
Thank you for your responses.
Actually, I'm wondering how to make it easier to monitor not only the server's uptime, but also the resource usage such as cpu, ram, disk.
(To check server performance and stability.)
For monitoring servers: Zabbix.
with hetrixtools you can monitor cpu, ram, disk usage, process, ip blacklist and more.
+1 for hetrixtools.com cannot go wrong.
Also this
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3570765/#Comment_3570765
Thank you very much again. These tools look really cool.
I will try hetrixtools first.
For this zabbix definitely
I suppose it depends exactly what you want to monitor. Hetrix is great for general uptime/availability (we use it too, for checking/logging publicly our upstreams).
Internally, since we are dealing with a lot of physical hardware I was turned onto librenms and once having it all setup really enjoy the visibility it gives. You can get buried in the weeds if you're not careful, but being able to setup alerts for so many items (for us mainly: cpu utilization, disks, bandwidth, etc) it's an excellent way to get automatically notified of broken parts (or breaking parts), abuse, or other oddities.
Hetrixtools Easily the best.
The upside (and downside) of Hetrix is that monitoring is done from their servers. If you’re monitoring 15 or less servers, it’s free and they monitor from 4 different locations of your choice (from a list of 12 Hetrix locations.) Monitor frequency is once every 60 seconds. Lots of notification options.
netdata
Uhhm.. New Relic?