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Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by edwinnathaniel »

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.

If you have multiple nodes that includes load balancer and other SOA services and want to link them all to view a request as one transaction (e.g.: a request comes in through a load balancer, gets processed by app-server-1, which in turns calls service-2 that queries to DB-1 {or memcache}, Appneta Traceview can connect them all).

Or you can monitor your web-app using Appview Web too for synthetic monitoring. Plus you can monitor your network as well using Pathview.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by voltagex_ »

adionditsak wrote: post #17
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?

Yes, most people know of them :-) I just felt like presenting them to people who might not know of them and their strengths. Why not present tools, although many know of them already? I think it is important to talk freely about any software, as there is always someone who might not know them. I appreciate this myself, and i am actually also new with *nix systems. If everyone had the same approach to information as y…

It's probably worth adding to this article as you find new utilities or new ways to use them - look at all the great suggestions in this comment page!

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by adionditsak »

voltagex_ wrote: post #32
adionditsak wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, most people know of them :-) I just felt like presenting them to people who might not know of them and their strengths. Why not present tools, although many know of them already? I think it is important to talk freely about any software, as there is always someone who might not know them. I appreciate this myself, and i am actually also new with *nix systems. If everyone had the same approach to information as y…

It's probably worth adding to this article as you find new utilities or new ways to use them - look at all the great suggestions in this comment page!

All the suggestions here is amazing. I will take a look at this later. At least make an edit with a list of the suggested software. Did not see this coming :-) Thank you everyone.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by gautamsomani »

replax wrote: post #35

Actually, bwm-ng is a nicer alternative to iftop. more information an nicer presented (I think)! try it :)

bwm-ng really has a neat and to the point interface, but it doesn't gives break up of individual established network sessions. Some times the individual details are needed too. That's where iftop comes in handy.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by michaelmior »

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've run a lot of Python apps on New Relic and definitely some great detailed monitoring there too.

Re: Linux server monitoring tools

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Post by bowlofpetunias »

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.

New Relic is great for application monitoring, but the systems monitoring is kind of meh.

And I've been getting way too may false positives on the systems alerts.

If you only want systems monitoring and not deep application performance insight, New Relic is way too pricey and not really that good.

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