Posted by yvmarques on April 4, 2012 at 2:01pm
Hi Everybody,
I'm looking for tools to help me keep an eye on my server. I'm trying some tools and I really like Monit (http://mmonit.com/monit/). First because its simple and allow me to collect some data on one dashboard. Monit is also very flexible on the rules that we can do when a problem occurs before to alert you by e-mail or whatever.
I would like share experience with you about monitoring tools and specially your configuration if you are also using Monit ?
THanks,
Comments
Monit is good..
Yes - monit is a really nice system to use. You can also look at munin to get a look at the stats behind the numbers.
With monit - I love the way I can put something together to fix things while I work out what's really going on. (why is my web server crashing ever 6 hours - but at least monit can restart it...)
Monit is simple and good for
Monit is simple and good for managing local processes/services, but for a more robust remote monitoring solution we like Nagios.
These days we are really liking the nagios fork icinga: https://www.icinga.org/nagios/ and strongly encourage folks to check it out. Here is a feature comparison between Nagios and Icinga: https://www.icinga.org/nagios/feature-comparison/
Thanks,
Brian
Monit is very useful
I agree with yvmarques, Monit is very helpful and useful when monitoring the server and automating it to restart when the server goes down.
It can automatically restart the server when the response is not obtained in a given time interval. This reduces lot of stress and load on the developer as well as on the server.
I recommend Monit for monitoring a server.
New Relic
Please consider new relic also. http://newrelic.com/
Its highly recommended.