I get pinged through a discord webhook when my site crashes (restarts).
Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#62Try Protectumus: https://protectumus.com
Protectumus monitors the website uptime, speed, dns changes, scans the website for malware like a traditional antivirus, blocks bad bots, custom IP's and countries. Protectumos acts as a Firewall. We are the only security company specialized in SEO Security, we offer unique SEO services such as Search engines Cloaking monitoring, Google DMCA Complaints, Blacklist monitoring & removal and more.
Details here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18295381
Full disclosure: I'm the founder.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#63https://nodeping.com - cheap, has an api, can graph a simple JSON response in addition to ICMP, http etc. Generally reliable and we’ve been using it as our backstop monitoring for hundreds of nodes for several years.
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#64To piggy back on the question, has anyone had a good experience using Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring? I'm looking into trying it. I've looked into Zenoss but from what I gather it's slow.
Yes, of course, Its a great tool to track statistics and write alerts. Prometheus is designed to scrape the stats from the services directly, but its also possible to do some kind of active checks. Maybe for checking the ssl cert expiry date you can use the blackbox exporter. https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
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#65At Dollar Shave Club, we use CircleCI 2's Scheduled Workflows to run "monitors" against our production services every minute. These are idempotent, analytics-disabled API & Browser (via Puppeteer) tests that we also run as CI tests on every commit.
We send all monitor metrics to DataDog. When a monitor fails, the appropriate teams will get a Slack notification with the full stack trace. A DataDog monitor will also be triggered, alerting the appropriate teams.
For browser monitors, we upload screenshots and Puppeteer tracing files to S3, then share links within each Slack hook. This allows people to figure out what's going on just by clicking links in Slack.
We were planning to improve this setup in the future, but it's good enough for us right now. For example, CircleCI goes degrades frequently so we sometimes get spotty coverage. We basically spend You can read more here:
- https://engineering.dollarshaveclub.com/monitor-all-the-thin...
- https://circleci.com/blog/how-dollar-shave-club-3x-d-velocit...
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#66I have very simple needs in this regard, so a very simple tool does the trick and does it very well: https://servercheck.in
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#67Try Protectumus: https://protectumus.com Protectumus monitors the website uptime, speed, dns changes, scans the website for malware like a traditional antivirus, blocks bad bots, custom IP's and countries. Protectumos acts as a Firewall. We are the only security company specialized in SEO Security, we offer unique SEO services such as Search engines Cloaking monitoring, Google DMCA Complaints, Blacklist monitoring &…
From your site:
> Protectumus acts as a web application firewall (WAF) and scans the website for known malware. Once the malware is found it will be automatically removed.
How does a WAF remove malware? Is there an additional agent sitting on the server or something? And surely when a server is pwned, it needs to be reformatted, not just the malware 'removed'.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#68KeyChest.net is great for managing your TLS certificates.
It can use the certificate transparency (CT) logs to detect new certificates for your domain, so once set up you don't have to maintain it. Make sure to enable the weekly report email too.
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#69If you want a light (and free) DIY solution, it's pretty straightforward to build a basic uptime monitor (with connections to Slack, SMS, whatever) using Standard Library [0] and Scheduled Tasks, one of our engineers just posted this article (you can build from your browser): https://hackernoon.com/build-an-uptime-monitor-in-minutes-wi... Another option if you don't feel in the mood for DIY is TJ Holowaychuk's Apex P…
Sorry but that has got to be one of the worst company/product names ever. Either it is completely un-searchable since literally every programming language has a "standard library" or if it actually takes off it will push down actually relevant results for niche programming language docs.
Yes — you’re not the first person to come at me with a pitchfork for the domain and name and won’t be the last. I do appreciate the feedback, but we’re committed to the name. :)
We haven’t historically had a problem with “stdlib”, we’re already the top Google result. “Standard Library” (full name) is new for us as we expand to a less technical cohort of customers. We’re working with some pretty great people and companies (Stripe, Slack) on our mission to build a, well, Standard Library — so if you can get over the name choice you should check out our online development environment! -> https://code.stdlib.com/
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#70Virtually every monitoring tool has already been mentioned. But I just want to add that you can always get CollectD and StatsD up and running in seconds for free on linux hosts. Very lightweight, and can measure virtually anything.