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Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by troels »

adionditsak wrote: post #20
Cieplak wrote: post #10

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.

Yes New Relic is pretty awesome. Lot of information you can monitor there, with a very easy installation. You can get a free account in there aswell, just to test it. I just made one, and i really like the simple UI: http://i.imgur.com/oGGfTrp.png

New Relic is really great. Especially if you use Ruby, as it has instrumentation deep into the application run level. Unmatched for finding bottlenecks really.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by jafaku »

troels wrote: post #21
adionditsak wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes New Relic is pretty awesome. Lot of information you can monitor there, with a very easy installation. You can get a free account in there aswell, just to test it. I just made one, and i really like the simple UI: http://i.imgur.com/oGGfTrp.png

New Relic is really great. Especially if you use Ruby, as it has instrumentation deep into the application run level. Unmatched for finding bottlenecks really.

Isn't it the same with PHP? And probably other languages too.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by mamadou »

blognews wrote: post #12

Everyone who deals with *nix in any way has known of all these applications by default. Couldn't come up with anything else to promote your useless blog?

I didn't know about apachetop and glances. I was actually trying to install an app like zabbix before I stumbled on this thread. If these tools can help me monitor the servers, that's even better! Thanks @adionditsak for sharing.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by adionditsak »

jafaku wrote: post #24
troels wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

New Relic is really great. Especially if you use Ruby, as it has instrumentation deep into the application run level. Unmatched for finding bottlenecks really.

Isn't it the same with PHP? And probably other languages too.

I think it is the same :-) As far as i can see these are definitely supported: Ruby, PHP, Java .NET, Pythom, Node.js.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by zorlem »

In addition (or even instead of) to htop I strongly recommend atop [0]. This tool has been of an invaluable help to me during a lot of diagnostic sessions.

It can collect detailed memory usage profile of processes and when combined with some smart scripting it has a nice leak detection functionality [1]. Very useful when you run out of memory and want to find which daemon has used all of it.

[0] http://www.atoptool.nl/

[1] http://www.atoptool.nl/download/case_leakage.pdf

edit: formatting

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

#30

Post by edwinnathaniel »

troels wrote: post #21
adionditsak wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes New Relic is pretty awesome. Lot of information you can monitor there, with a very easy installation. You can get a free account in there aswell, just to test it. I just made one, and i really like the simple UI: http://i.imgur.com/oGGfTrp.png

New Relic is really great. Especially if you use Ruby, as it has instrumentation deep into the application run level. Unmatched for finding bottlenecks really.

Appneta does this for Python/ruby/java/.net/php.

We recently open source our Ruby instrumentation:

https://www.appneta.com/blog/open-sourcing-ruby/

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