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Re: Ask HN: Here is my current batch of ideas. In exchange, I ask for your feedback.

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Post by WestCoastJustin » Wed, Jun 02, 2010, 7:25 PM UTC

#6 -- you should check out nagios. We have many thousands of checks running on all aspects of our infrastructure. Allows for email, text messages, etc notifications on OK, WARN, and CRITICAL events. There are plenty of plugins already available but if you want something custom create it... it's free and open-source.

For example, we have checks to see if there are fan, drive, power supply, etc, failures within systems. We also monitor main power feeds, UPS, ventilation, etc on site infrastructure. You can also monitor/graph/check history of websites and their load times.

EDIT: you might also want to check out ganglia from the OS side. This doesn't allow notifications (as far as I know) like nagios but you can instantly see what your resources are being used on in larger machine clusters.

Re: Ask HN: Here is my current batch of ideas. In exchange, I ask for your feedback.

#32

Post by famfam » Wed, Jun 02, 2010, 7:32 PM UTC

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #31

#6 -- you should check out nagios. We have many thousands of checks running on all aspects of our infrastructure. Allows for email, text messages, etc notifications on OK, WARN, and CRITICAL events. There are plenty of plugins already available but if you want something custom create it... it's free and open-source. For example, we have checks to see if there are fan, drive, power supply, etc, failures within systems…

Sure, Nagios, Collectd, Ganglia etc etc etc are all options. But I'm talking about something hosted, external, URL-based (so we can find user-facing problems), and most importantly simple and affordable. Something where you might be okay spending $10-$100 month rather than having to have someone manage a fine-grained internal monitoring system.

Re: Ask HN: Here is my current batch of ideas. In exchange, I ask for your feedback.

#33

Post by jeffepp » Wed, Jun 02, 2010, 8:09 PM UTC

1. Great idea, agree on limitations but I would def use it. 2. Love it - would use 100% 3. Building sth like this currently (+ affiliate) 4. not for me 5. this is a great idea. If you are serious about this, email me I know someone in this space looking for help 6. Not techie enough to understand the value of this.