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Bandwidth monitoring with ntop & Monitis

POSTED ON: March 12, 2012 POSTED BY Dan Fruehauf

ntop bandwidth monitor


ntop is a very simple yet powerful bandwidth monitor which outputs various statistics counters in RRD.
RRD – Round Robin Database – is a very handy framework for saving server performance counters in a ring buffer.
We can say that if we would like to graph network performance, ntop does most of the hard work for us and all we have left to do is to graph the counters.
Among the counters ntop exposes there are:

  • Total bytes per interface
  • Total HTTP, DHCP, DNS, NetBIOS bytes per interface
  • Interface throughput
  • IGMP, ARP statistics

And speaking of graphing, we have Monitis, which can graph any counter we can think of. I have an idea – lets graph ntop data with Monitis!
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Category: 101 Reasons To Choose Monitis, Linux Servers Monitoring, Mail Server Monitoring, Monitoring Scripts, Network Monitoring, Performance Management, Server Management, Web Server Monitoring

PostgreSQL monitoring with Monitis

POSTED ON: February 22, 2012 POSTED BY Dan Fruehauf

Generic server monitoring with Monitis & M3


Had I been told to monitor a cat chasing a mouse with Monitis, my answer would have been – “Yes, it’s probably possible”.
With the not-so-recent addition of M3 to the arsenal of monitoring tools Monitis can utilize, it is possible to monitor anything. However this alone is far from being enough. Smart implementations of proper applicative monitoring is what should be practiced.
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Category: 101 Reasons To Choose Monitis, Application Performance Management, Applications Monitoring, Database Management, Database Monitoring, Monitis API, Monitis vs. Other services, Monitoring Scripts, MySQL monitoring, Performance Management, Server Management, Transactions Monitoring, Uptime Monitoring

M3 Timers – improved server monitoring

POSTED ON: February 10, 2012 POSTED BY Dan Fruehauf

Unleashing the power of M3 & timers


During the lifespan of M3 (Monitis Monitor Manager) there has always been something lacking – timers.

M3 execution procedure was outlined in this previous article.

The execution mentioned in the latter was a one-time-execution, whereas server monitoring requires periodic invocation of monitors in order to actually provide counters over time, graphing performance.

The periodic invocation method suggested up until today was to integrate M3 with crontab.

Crontab, in a nutshell, is a Linux/Unix service for periodic invocation of executables. Implementing M3 with crontab properly meant M3 would run every X minutes, producing a Monitis counter update every X minutes, should everything run properly.

In the following article I’ll outline the changes done to support timers in M3.
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Category: 101 Reasons To Choose Monitis, Applications Monitoring, Database Monitoring, Linux Servers Monitoring, Management Scripts, Monitis API, Monitoring Scripts, Network Monitoring, Performance Management, Transactions Monitoring, Uptime Monitoring, Website Monitoring

M3 code refactor & DBI support

POSTED ON: January 27, 2012 POSTED BY Dan Fruehauf

Pluggable M3 (Monitis Monitor Manager) Framework

Who needs an introduction about M3? – Perhaps no one!
After gaining some reputation with M3, providing extra-easy integration of any monitor into Monitis it was time to take it to the next level.

Generally speaking, the work flow of M3 was described in detail in this article.

After some thought and design, we’ve decided it’d be best if M3 was pluggable. Pluggable in terms of being able to easily add execution and parsing plugins.
The interface and behavior of M3 stayed exactly the same, however now it is much easier to obtain data from any source and parse the data the way you want it.
Saying that, it was time to put the new design for a test. We tried to integrate the DBI support into M3.
Guess what – it was much easier than expected!
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Category: 101 Reasons To Choose Monitis, Applications Monitoring, Database Management, Database Monitoring, Management Scripts, Monitis API, Monitoring Scripts, MS SQL Server Monitoring, MySQL monitoring, Network Monitoring, Server Management, Sysadmin Tools, Uptime Monitoring, Website Monitoring

Nagios to Monitis converter: Making life easier for sysadmins

POSTED ON: September 13, 2011 POSTED BY Dan Fruehauf

Nagios Web SiteIn the previous article we’ve shown how easy it is to integrate popular Nagios server monitoring commands, or plugins, with Monitis M3 monitoring framework.

However, given the fact you have a working Nagios configuration, which is vast and complex – I can sympathize with your unwillingness to actually migrate to Monitis.
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Category: 101 Reasons To Choose Monitis, Applications Monitoring, Linux Servers Monitoring, Management Scripts, Monitis API, Monitis vs. Other services, Monitoring Scripts, Network Monitoring, Web Server Monitoring

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