[clug-talk] server monitoring

[Evandro Miquelito]

Greg King wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:14:38 -0600
>> From: Greg Saunders <greg at taord.com>
>> Subject: [clug-talk] server monitoring
>> To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>
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>> Hi all, I'm looking for recommendations on server monitoring, reporting,
>> notification toolkit(s). Something to run as a cron job and let me know if
>> my drive is filling up, CPU has been running at 100% for days on end,
>> there's no RAM left and you could fry bacon on the HDD because of all the
>> swapping, that kind of thing. I'm starting to get too many servers to
>> worry
>> about and I don't want to log in to each of them every day to check on
>> things ... I'm lazy :)

If you are lazy you might want to take a look at pingdom:
http://www.pingdom.com/

Though, you can't run it as a cron job since this is a SaaS 
application. Definitely it's not as full-featured as 
monitoring tools such as Nagios but it's a pretty decent 
tool. I also love the fact that Pingdom monitors your server 
or web applications from multiple locations on the internet, 
great to avoid some specific problems on your ISP for instance.

They offer a very basic free account with one check:
https://www.pingdom.com/signup/free/

They also have a totally free service called GIGRIB:
http://uptime.pingdom.com/

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Evandro Vale Miquelito