What tools do you use to monitor your boxes?

LiteServer

@sandro said:
Can you link the free version for Ubuntu?

Plenty of info to find on the 'net :-)
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/nagios.html

theroyalstudent

@K4Y5 said:
In case a server in my basement doesn't work properly, I usually just go down with

Where's the hammer

dedicados

theroyalstudent said: Where's the hammer

not all can be fixed with a hammer

theroyalstudent

@dedicados said:

theroyalstudent said: Where's the hammer

not all can be fixed with a hammer

General Purpose:

For those servers running Windows especially for Traffic Exchange:

LiteServer

@theroyalstudent
The hammer method fixes everything! :-)

Coop31

I use Happy Apps with good uptime monitoring, with SSH- and Agent-based connectivity across private, public and hybrid clouds. You can monitor apps, databases, app servers and messaging queues with the ability to view overall and individual statuses and dependency maps between systems. Monitoring checks are executed on intervals of one to five, and Happy Apps can also execute custom queries. Setting up rules for alerts, delivered via SMS or email is simple, and the "mute" feature eliminates unnecessary alerts for false positives. Each check is saved and presented in easy-to-understand reports, with the ability to perform analysis on stored data, identify patterns, performance issues and outages.

loot

On one hand, Nagios provides a lot of stuff to make things easier. On the other hand, it's nice to use StatsD or something similar, output it into InfluxDB, and run it into a personal panel for, well, personalization,

And I'm sure the Simpsons have done it.

DewlanceVPS

I use AutoBoot software to monitor all servers and get notification. It was built by me but it was stop working on KVM server so recently I make changes to it and now again its work.

Amitz

DewlanceVPS said: I use AutoBoot software to monitor all servers and get notification. It was built by me but it was stop working on KVM server so recently I make changes to it and now again its work.

Impressive! Call a friend.

BeardyUnixGuy

@Amitz said:

DewlanceVPS said: I use AutoBoot software to monitor all servers and get notification. It was built by me but it was stop working on KVM server so recently I make changes to it and now again its work.

Impressive! Call a friend.

Sounds like something worth open-sourcing, or at least licensing out to other providers ;-)

Amitz

The whole AutoBoot™ technology is closed-source as far as I know. Multiple patents and all that stuff. It's really a pity.

cassa

Nagios / check_mk / omdistro

Gravely

Do any of these services provide a real time bandwidth.

lifehome

@Gravely said:
Do any of these services provide a real time bandwidth DSTAT graph?

Here comes the nasty things.

mycosys

What tools do you use to monitor your boxes?

Nothing
Well not since the last time i spent a month on the couch.
Apparently my girlfirend thinks monitoring her is a privacy issue :S

Gravely

@lifehome said:

@Gravely said:
Do any of these services provide a real time bandwidth DSTAT graph?

Here comes the nasty things.

sounds nasty haha. think i found what i was looking for.

mycosys

@dedicados said:

theroyalstudent said: Where's the hammer

not all can be fixed with a hammer

Very true, sometimes you need zipties, gappertape, or even WD40