Linux server monitoring tools

#1

Post by adionditsak » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 10:54 AM UTC

Four tools to get an overview and interact with what is going on with your Linux machine.

Linux server monitoring tools
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Re: Linux server monitoring tools

#2

Post by shocks » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 11:41 AM UTC

Another good one is dstat[1]

1: http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/dstat/

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

#3

Post by ithinkso » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 11:51 AM UTC

shocks wrote: post #2

Another good one is dstat[1] 1: http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/dstat/

This makes me curiouser and curiouser every day - are you guys typing this citation brackets by hand or there is something I'm missing?

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

#4

Post by shocks » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 11:53 AM UTC

ithinkso wrote: post #3

shocks wrote: post #2

Another good one is dstat[1] 1: http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/dstat/

This makes me curiouser and curiouser every day - are you guys typing this citation brackets by hand or there is something I'm missing?

Typing them by hand. :)

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

#5

Post by SunboX » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 11:57 AM UTC

If you want to monitor all log files for security purpose, I can recommend OSSEC: http://www.ossec.net/

And OSSEC Web User Interface (ossec wui): https://scottlinux.com/wp-content/gallery/site/ossec_web.png

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by _delirium » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 11:59 AM UTC

ithinkso wrote: post #3

shocks wrote: post #2

Another good one is dstat[1] 1: http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/dstat/

This makes me curiouser and curiouser every day - are you guys typing this citation brackets by hand or there is something I'm missing?

It's a fairly old convention for adding links or references in plaintext. Used on mailing lists also. The alternative is to move to hypertext (not supported in some contexts, not preferred in other contexts), or to add the link or other citation information inline in parentheses, which can make text look cluttered.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

#7

Post by ursul_fram » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 12:06 PM UTC

yet another ignorant ubuntu user!

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

#8

Post by nwh » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 12:13 PM UTC

iftop is also a very good one, gives nice graphs of the network utilisation sorted by host or port— http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

#9

Post by lelandbatey » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 12:17 PM UTC

My personal list of tools that I use all the time:

    iftop
    nload
    htop
    goaccess
    ...I'll add more as I remember them, currently gotta sleep.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

#10

Post by Cieplak » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 12:17 PM UTC

If you have multiple nodes, I recommend new relic. It's a bit pricey, but if an issue arises in your stack, new relic can help you immediately pinpoint where and what the issue is.

ps. I can view new relic on my phone, so if I get a pagerduty, I can still see what's up if I'm at the beach.