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Monitoring apache & nginx using Monitis and M3

POSTED ON: May 2, 2013 POSTED BY Dan Fruehauf

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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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Category: Apache Monitoring, Applications Monitoring, Linux Servers Monitoring, Management Scripts, Monitis API, Monitoring Scripts, Server Management, Sysadmin Tools

Monitis Monitor Manager Raw Commands Explained

POSTED ON: June 27, 2012 POSTED BY Dan Fruehauf

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M3 (or its newer version which you should be using – M3v3) can do pretty much. However it can’t do anything.
M3 is good at timing execution of commands, apply simple parsing and upload the data to Monitis. Allowing you as the SysAdmin (and end-user of M3) to easily shape and design Custom Monitors for your system improving overall system uptime and stability.
Many times this is indeed what happens when trying to monitor different applications. The simple process of ‘Execution -> Parsing -> Reporting’ gets the job done. What happens when it doesn’t?
Well, I’ll tell you what happens – you are left a bit puzzled and think you’ll have to implement the Custom Monitors API which Monitis provide. True – until not long ago.
M3v3 bring you ‘Raw Commands’ capability in its last version.
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Category: Application Performance Management, Applications Monitoring, Articles, Database Monitoring, Linux Servers Monitoring, Monitis API, Monitis vs. Other services, Network Monitoring, Open Source, Performance Management, Sysadmin Tools, Uncategorized

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

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