We use several things including custom scripts to monitor and alert when needed. However our main tool is ipMonitor. We monitor hundreds of servers in multiple environments (dev, test, prod) and the thing that I don't like is all the noise that gets created. It makes it hard to find the real important issues. I believe monitoring is great, but any alert should have an actionable items to perform.
Ask HN: How do you monitor several servers?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor several servers?
#12If you're hosted on AWS by chance, check out their "CloudWatch" services. Monitors everything I usually need, sends alerts as-needed, etc.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor several servers?
#13Nagios is pretty standard for monitoring. Administration is usually custom automation. There are a lot of tools for this, and they all have good and bad, so you should just go with what is most accessible to you.
Yes, I know about Nagios, Zabbix, Munin, etc. But all of them like star ships control panel – has too many options for my needs. Maybe, it is good way to use one of them, but it so hard to find day for configuration of all of this =)
Give munin another chance, I find it's the easiest to setup from the list.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor several servers?
#14Nagios core.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor several servers?
#15http://cloudstats.me/server-monitoring/ almost ideal, but has several pitfalls: closed source, $5 for server, and doesn't have package manager monitoring.
heya, thanks for your note, the agent is actually open source. in re package manager, do speak to us in skype, we are pretty open for anything ;)