[_] Website monitoring software?
Daniel Hilton
daniel.hilton at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 13:18:40 GMT 2006
On 01/11/06, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Tom Gidden wrote:
>
> > My problem is that they're all far too complex for my tastes, and the
> > code tends to be pretty messy. When it comes to fault monitoring, I
> > want a simple, clean, reliable piece of code doing the job. I also
> > want redundant off-site monitoring, so I can see if the monitoring
> > mechanism itself has failed.
>
> I have to agree with you there. They are all pretty complicated. As
> Scott said, we use Nagios here, mainly cos it was one of the first ones
> we came across. We used to use Argus which I liked quite a bit, but
> Nagios has much better dependancy checking. But it is still not 100%
> great.
>
> > Incidentally, using email and SMS for fault notification isn't actually
> > something you should rely on, as both can fail silently... doubly-so
> > when using an email-to-SMS gateway. Just this week, I had some SMS
> > texts arrive over 8 hours after sending. That was Orange to Orange,
> > with both phones getting a good quality signal.
>
> We use a Wavecom GSM modem plugged into the serial port of the
> monitoring machine, on the same GSM network as our office phones. At
> least this way we reduce the number of points of failure en route.
>
> -Matt
>
>
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Can I throw ganglia into the mix? http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
Just been reading baout in Cal Henderson's latest book, Ganglia has some
cool hooks it seems to be able to add in
random stats, say those relate to a particular web app, like sign-ups or
such like.
As used by wikipedia see here:http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/
Worth a look.
--
Dan Hilton
============================
DanHilton.co.uk
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>
> Tom Gidden wrote:
>
> > My problem is that they're all far too complex for my tastes, and the
> > code tends to be pretty messy. When it comes to fault monitoring, I
> > want a simple, clean, reliable piece of code doing the job. I also
> > want redundant off-site monitoring, so I can see if the monitoring
> > mechanism itself has failed.
>
> I have to agree with you there. They are all pretty complicated. As
> Scott said, we use Nagios here, mainly cos it was one of the first ones
> we came across. We used to use Argus which I liked quite a bit, but
> Nagios has much better dependancy checking. But it is still not 100%
> great.
>
> > Incidentally, using email and SMS for fault notification isn't actually
> > something you should rely on, as both can fail silently... doubly-so
> > when using an email-to-SMS gateway. Just this week, I had some SMS
> > texts arrive over 8 hours after sending. That was Orange to Orange,
> > with both phones getting a good quality signal.
>
> We use a Wavecom GSM modem plugged into the serial port of the
> monitoring machine, on the same GSM network as our office phones. At
> least this way we reduce the number of points of failure en route.
>
> -Matt
>
>
> --
> Matt Hamilton matth at netsight.co.uk
> Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Business Vision on the Internet
> http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901
> Web Design | Zope/Plone Development & Consulting | Co-location | Hosting
>
> --
> underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk
>
Can I throw ganglia into the mix? http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
Just been reading baout in Cal Henderson's latest book, Ganglia has some
cool hooks it seems to be able to add in
random stats, say those relate to a particular web app, like sign-ups or
such like.
As used by wikipedia see here:http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/
Worth a look.
--
Dan Hilton
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DanHilton.co.uk
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