What tools do you use to monitor your web server(s)? More specifically, server uptime, resource usage (CPU, RAM, bandwidth, etc.), Apache, MySQL and PHP/Ruby/Python.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your LAMP server(s)?
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Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your LAMP server(s)?
#2you can use Cactus to monitor server load/cpu/etc, I'm not sure about the others...
Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your LAMP server(s)?
#3STACK: MySQL, RoR, Nginx, Mongrel, Monit
Fun. We use:
- Newrelic
- Engineyard: http monitor
- Hoptoad for errors
- Some custom daemon scripts that fire emails when background processes aren't working.
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#4Nagios
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#5Munin
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#6Munin/monit
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#7custom network management system that does icmp polling and service checks, snmp polling for bandwidth, cpu, memory, and server-specific data that is exported server-side (a lot of it is gathered from log files) and collected through snmp.
alerts through jabber, email, and sms. i setup a monitor and cheapo eeebox to watch the data in realtime for my most important stuff.
Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your LAMP server(s)?
#8We have a cluster of about 60 servers, and use Monit and Ganglia to manage it. Monit will alert you when certain problems occur -- for example, if the server load is too high, if a service stopped running, or if can't reach the database. Ganglia records data and graphs that data over time. We use it to see how busy our server are getting, or how our peak resource usage compares to off-peak. Monit is important for noticing a problem; Ganglia's useful for diagnosing that problem.
That said, I'm a huge fan of Cloudkick. Their software is ridiculously easy to install and use, and the web application makes it VERY easy to understand what's going on with your services. It's perfect if you're just monitoring one server -- it's free -- but even worth the money if you've got a whole cluster. If I could do it all over again, I'd definitely go with Cloudkick.
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#9Xymon (formerly known as Big Brother). Yeah it's old, but it's simple, reliable and what I know. I've tried to switch to Nagios and OpManager, but ended up back to Xymon.
I use Cacti for graphing. I have some big gripes with it, but I've invested a lot of brain matter in it and it works.
http://www.opmanager.com (slow, unreliable j2ee app with a lot of features and great tech support.)
Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your LAMP server(s)?
#10We prefer to just let somebody else manage it: ServerDensity is the best we have found. You can also use PagerDuty in tandem with ServerDensity.