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Monitoring software (like Pingdom)
I'm looking for something like Pingdom, but self-hosted.
So far I have found:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwatch/
Shows a lot of promise, but development seems to have halted.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpservermon/
More recently updated, but the GUI is not as good.
Do you have any more similar software? PHP/web ui preferred, some other nice things would be:
- Email sending via external SMTP server (eg. Gmail)
- API (JSON)
- Uptime, response time graphs
Thank you for your time!
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Zabbix fits the bill, but it's possibly a little complex. Worth getting in to though (IMO)
http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/70092
http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/79885
+1 for Zabbix. Also, look into nagios, if you enjoy having high blood pressure.
Hmm... Curious about Zabbix, may just resort to something more independant like these scripts at the top.
Then again, why do I need all of these things, I have Pingdom 1Year free and UptimeRobot :']
I am planning on creating a similar script/site but with a proper design (distributed monitoring and database, redundancy everywhere). If you (or anyone else) is interested in joining in just drop me a PM.
I might be creating a bit of work for myself here, but if anyone wants a free account on my Zabbix server, drop me a PM. I set it up quite some time ago with the intention of creating a monitoring service. I'm still planning on it, but other things keep getting in the way. The agent is in most repositories.
If I ever get round to finishing a basic self-service portal to add/remove servers, I plan to have a free tier for monitoring 1 or 2 servers.
Selfhosted? Status2k? Nikki's status?
Looks pretty awesome, non-free is the only issue I guess.
I have been looking a bit at the phpwatch source and have started to hack on it to suit my needs (timezones, persistent settings, more monitor gateways), check out the source, maybe we could help each other out.
I know it is unthinkable to use the site google to search this site, which is why these monitoring threads appear once a week, but I have a pre-made openvz Centreon/Nagios template
http://hostigation.com/ovz-templates/centos-5.5-i386-centreon.tar.gz
And yeah, it was a bitch setting up, but all the heavy lifting is done here, just don't type yum update
Thanks, but i'm actually looking into building something custom which scales horizontally so i'll be using MongoDB as a database.
Can I profit and use it? :-)
Free ice cream?
I'm waiting you at the airport with a few barrels...
I'm amazed at the monitoring obsession and the complexity of some approaches
For years I've been using a bash script (with pung), and a couple small text files for storing results. Very simple, effective & highly portable. And I run it on a local linux server at the office. If my DSL goes down, then no monitoring. Which doesn't matter to me 'cause I couldn't fix anything anyway 
I was mostly looking for a clean solution that'd tell me when services (not only web hosting, mind you) go down.
phpWatch seems to be great for that.
Looked into Status2k but it was a bit bloated, besides it requires you to install it on every server you have, which is quite the hassle, since many of my servers dont even run PHP.
pung $host $port $timeout
Doesn't get any cleaner than that
I guess I'll share my secret, since no one here ever refers to the infinitely better designed php server monitor.
https://github.com/madeinnordeste/PHP-Server-Monitor-Plus
Not much of a secret
Been thinking about a crazy cheap hosting package based around an alteration of this. Appeal would be higher uptime than an average LEB. Simple in nature though.
@jarland does it require every server to have PHP though?
Because my DNS servers don't have PHP :P
Nope, it monitors websites or ports
I got a PHP one, do you want the source?
@netomx I was raised to always remember that when you visit Mexico, never approach when they say "It's just in my trunk over here."
I edited it because it was really never trust a Mexican but...my family was racist, now I like to poke at them for fun even when no one gets the joke
That is really racist
There are bad people in Mexico that prey on tourists, but there are far more bad people in the US that prey on others. Everytime I've been to Mexico, I've come across some of the nicest people just as anyplace I have visited.
@miTgiB East Texas
don't worry, I know my people; as @miTgiB we have bad and good people. when you visit Monterrey, PM me.
I'd be interested in providing a node to run this on.
@netomx Seriously never been. I don't know why. I'm so close to Mexico and it looks so beautiful down there.
where' u from?
@netomx Longview, TX. A bit of a drive but there's certainly worse ones.
@jarland looong drive, but I think Laredo is the closest border; so, Nuevo Laredo is NOT GOOD. Monterrey is nice though