Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
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Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#2Also, if you're interested in a paid plan, we're offering 15% savings for the next 48 hours!
Use the promo code: "cksysadmin" or visit https://www.cloudkick.com/pricing/cksysadmin
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#3We use CloudKick to monitor some of our servers and it is just completely awesome. It's way easier than monitoring a bunch of servers with htop and much quick than trying to roll your own solution.
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#4Disclaimer: I work at Cloudkick
In case there's any ambiguity, Cloudkick isn't giving a cloud server instance to everyone for free. The developer plan lets you monitor and manage one server for free. It has all the other features of paid accounts though: SMS alerts, custom plugins for monitoring, etc. I use it for my one EC2 instance that acts as my personal web server/IRC bouncer/VPN server/whatever.
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#5Super impressed. In 20 minutes I was able to hook up my personal Linode with a level of monitoring that probably would have taken a few hours to pull off manually.
I don't think I would have considered using the paid service before, but this free account offers a compelling experience. I bet it'll pay off in conversions.
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#6I'm really excited to try this... sadly I'm getting time-out issues when trying to set up monitoring with my Linode API key but I'm guessing you guys might be under a lot of load with this promo?
It's working now. It looks as though it didn't want to add a node until I authenticated my email address even though it took me directly to an "add node" flow directly upon signup.
I also can see a lot of conversions from this.
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#7Super impressed. In 20 minutes I was able to hook up my personal Linode with a level of monitoring that probably would have taken a few hours to pull off manually. I don't think I would have considered using the paid service before, but this free account offers a compelling experience. I bet it'll pay off in conversions.
Sounds like you set up the Cloudkick agent. If you really want to take advantage of the agent, try out some custom plugins (https://support.cloudkick.com/Agent/Custom_Plugins). We've cleaned up a few that we use internally and made them available at http://github.com/cloudkick/agent-plugins
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#8Super impressed. In 20 minutes I was able to hook up my personal Linode with a level of monitoring that probably would have taken a few hours to pull off manually. I don't think I would have considered using the paid service before, but this free account offers a compelling experience. I bet it'll pay off in conversions.
Sounds like you set up the Cloudkick agent. If you really want to take advantage of the agent, try out some custom plugins ( https://support.cloudkick.com/Agent/Custom_Plugins ). We've cleaned up a few that we use internally and made them available at http://github.com/cloudkick/agent-plugins
Indeed. I'm a Debian user, so it only took a minute to get the agent running which I appreciated a lot.
It seems like the only piece missing is graphing and alerting on bandwidth usage with the agent. Linode provides a nice set of hypervisor-level views of IO/CPU/Bandwidth but they're really only useful historically and from a billing perspective. On second thought, this sounds like an awesome way to get familiar with the plugin interface ;)
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#9I signed up and am looking forward to trying it out for a new project I'm working on. Just a weird site note: for some reason, my browser is locking up for a few seconds every time I click on a link in my dashboard. My CPU usage is spiking. Can anyone much smarter than I hazard a guess as to what's going on?
Re: Happy Sysadmin Day! Cloudkick Developer plan: all features, 1 server, SMS alerts
#10I signed up and am looking forward to trying it out for a new project I'm working on. Just a weird site note: for some reason, my browser is locking up for a few seconds every time I click on a link in my dashboard. My CPU usage is spiking. Can anyone much smarter than I hazard a guess as to what's going on?
Hey there. If you want to jump into #cloudkick on freenode, or jump into our support chat (it's the link down at the bottom-left of your screen) and provide a few more details, we will try to figure out what's happening.