Once every few months, I go to the website.
Really??? Teach me! How do you manage doing that???
Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
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#92To 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.
To me, this solution is too much leaning toward graphing and that's not the primary feature you need to health check services.
Also Prometheus only saves 15 days worth of data by default and since they aren't willing to develop down sampling, it's not good to keep any long term history of the metric but you can overcome this by using InfluxDB as the storage but I would rather use something like monit which is simpler and easier to setup and gets the actual job done well.
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#93I have Telegraf running on all my machines that pipes data to an InfluxDB for storage and then Grafana for visualizations. Gives me all sorts of useful information that I use to make decisions.
This is such a cool way of doing monitoring.
You need to realize health checking doesn't need to be cool.
It's a good solution to check the statistics by human eyes but there are simpler and more effective solutions for health checking.
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#94Nagios, in combination with with check_mk 'raw edition' ( https://mathias-kettner.com/editions.html ). The Nagios configuration is automatically generated via Puppet resource collection. SSL certificate expiry is easily checked with a nagios check (use the -C flag on check_http). If you use Letsencrypt with a client like acmetool ( https://github.com/hlandau/acme ) your certs will never expire. Of course the nagios c…
Is there a reason to pick Nagios today than the reason "I know it well"?
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#95We use Monit https://mmonit.com/monit/
Love its simple config language and ease of setup.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#96We wait until the CIO calls since he gets all of the alerts anyway.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#97Try 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'.
Thanks for your question. We have both a Firewall and a traditional Antivirus. They work separately.
The firewall blocks bad bods, hack attempts like SQL injections, XSS, CSRF and more.
The antivirus scans for known malware (we have a big list of malware definitions), but we use AI and Machine Learning and the Antivirus learns from previous detections and is able to act alone. The script is able to automatically remove the malware once it is found.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'.
Thanks for your question. We have both a Firewall and a traditional Antivirus. They work separately. The firewall blocks bad bods, hack attempts like SQL injections, XSS, CSRF and more. The antivirus scans for known malware (we have a big list of malware definitions), but we use AI and Machine Learning and the Antivirus learns from previous detections and is able to act alone. The script is able to automatically remo…
Thank you for the info.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#99UptimeRobot is quick to setup and have a lot of options, including a white label portal [0] to monitor status it's reliable and cheap ($54/year) I'm not affiliated with them, just an happy customer [0] E.g. status page: https://status.appdrag.com/
I've had a bad experience with Uptime Robot - it only checked our server via IPv4. We didn't know IPv6 was down for far too long (it was a DNS problem).
Sounds like you didn't check that they checked for ipv6. Businesses aren't going to tell you where their services are lacking.
Re: Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
#100Montastic. Simple. $5.