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Monitoring (both inside/outside) - What Do You Use?
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Monitoring (both inside/outside) - What Do You Use?

raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

I asked about this some time ago, but the landscape changes so fast.

What do you use for monitoring, where monitoring is both:

  1. from the outside - such as ping, checking http, etc. There are a million products and external services (I like NodePing) that do this.
  2. from the inside - getting status from the box from inside, like "did MySQL go down" or "was there a RAID event"

Comments

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
    edited February 2014

    What I do internally at least:

    I use something cPanel made a while ago, you can find it below.

    https://github.com/cPanelTechs/SysSnap

    You don't need cPanel for that btw. I combine this with a tcpdump cron every minute for 5s, cleared by daily cron. So if I know something happened around X time, I'll pull the logs from cPanel's script which shows what was running and all that jazz, then for real in depth answers on the network activity I can pull the tcpdump cron by it's timestamp. Absolutely nothing gets past you like this.

    1. Monitis for ping monitoring from multiple locations; UptimeRobot as a secondary monitor.

    2. Munin and htop, etc.

  • NodePing, and Observium :)

    Thanked by 1NodePing
  • using NodePing and Observium

    Thanked by 1NodePing
  • SplitIceSplitIce Member, Host Rep
    edited February 2014
    • Zabbix for Internal + External.
    • UptimeRobot for a secondary check of HTTP resources
  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    I thought Observium was more of a Cacti-like MRTG-like graphing/capture/SNMP analysis tool.

    Does it do things like MySQL is down, scraping /var/log/messages, etc.?

  • Nagios cuz I'm used to it.

  • bdtechbdtech Member
    edited February 2014

    Internally: webmin system status or Longview

    Externally: uptime robot & status cake. Application layer (HTTP w/ keywords)

  • Used to use Zabbix in and out. But switching over to NewRelic and Splunkstorm just because its easier to add nodes.

  • I use pingdom and a central cacti server to monitor all my http and asterisk VPS. I also use Monit on each of my servers that is configured to send me an email alert via Amazon SES whenever a monitored service or iptables goes down. It works great.

    I also use AIDE to monitor for unauthorized filesystem changes. It helped me a lot during a previous security breach at one of my VPS providers - using AIDE I was able to be sure that none of my system files was modified by the hacker.

  • NewRelic and StatusCake

  • mikhomikho Member, Host Rep

    For all my customers (dayjob) I use PRTG both internally and external.

  • @jarland said:
    What I do internally at least:

    I use something cPanel made a while ago, you can find it below.

    https://github.com/cPanelTechs/SysSnap

    Good to see someone else who likes a bit of SysSnap :)

  • top, free -m, netstat -antlp

  • vedranvedran Veteran
    edited February 2014

    A bit offtopic, but what happened to OpenStatus @NickM?

  • vedran said: I bit offtopic, but what happened to OpenStatus

    I stopped having time to work on it, basically. It does, however, live on in HostGuard's monitoring system :) Maybe at some point, I'll consider putting out a new standalone version.

  • Pingdom for external host up/down monitoring and Icinga for internal more detailed monitoring like RAID status, load etc. Icinga gets configured automagially by Puppet. Then of course Observium for graphs.

  • Observium

    • netflow
  • DylanDylan Member
    edited February 2014

    New Relic, Pingdom, StatusCake.

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