Apache and Nginx web servers both expose a very nice interface for polling the web server status via HTTP, providing you with useful counters for statistics and up-time.
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Apache and Nginx web servers both expose a very nice interface for polling the web server status via HTTP, providing you with useful counters for statistics and up-time.
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Welcome M3Among the many hats I wear, I also wear a DevOps/SysAdmin hat in Lacoon Security.
When I was invited to custom tailor the monitoring solution for Lacoon Security, I didn’t even hesitate and recommended to use Monitis and M3.
Partly because I wrote M3 but mainly because I think it is a really good solution.
Lacoon Security implements a security service for mobile devices, based on the cloud.
Lacoon’s monitoring needs were rather complex, however, nothing Monitis & M3 could not achieve. Here is the proof.
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Monitis open API and available collection of open source monitoring and management scripts provide nice possibility for finding solutions for monitoring your systems. Still there are many cases when you need a specific monitor and do not have or don’t want to spend much time on coding. That is the reason of presenting the very simple and easy way of building custom monitors with Pentaho Data Integration suite.
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Last week I was honored to be invited to the famous Velocity 2012 conference in Santa Clara California, hosted by O’Reilly. Monitis was one of the silver sponsors. It was a great opportunity for me to meet the wonderful team I’ve been working with for the last year.
Velocity is all about web and cloud computing. A truly great place to learn about new technologies and keep up with bleeding edge developments.
Getting to the Monitis booth I must admit I was slightly disappointed to find out there was no demonstration of any Custom Monitors capabilities.
Custom Monitors when tailored as turnkey solutions are truly a very important aspect of monitoring server and application uptime.
Enough talking, lets get some work done.
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M3 and the previous versionWe are really proud of Monitis Monitor Manager (M3) a tool that enables you to easily configure checks and upload the data to Monitis.
We are certain that it has a great potential that can be unleashed with the help of the Monitis community and various interested developers. It is really a powerful tool for monitoring nearly everything. M3 been around for a while now. It started as a simple Perl script for for managing Custom Monitors was developing slowly slowly into a robust, pluggable infrastructure for managing almost anything in terms of Custom Monitors in Monitis.
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Monitis GFI is a specialist provider of web and Cloud monitoring services that include website monitoring, site load testing, transaction monitoring, application and database monitoring, Cloud resource monitoring, and server and internal network monitoring within one easy-to-use dashboard. Over 100,000 users worldwide have chosen Monitis as their provider of choice to increase uptime and user experience of their services and products. What makes Monitis' solutions different is that they are fast to deploy, feature-rich in technology and provide a comprehensive single-pane view of on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and applications.