“In this article I will describe how to monitor your server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected.”
I’ve been meaning to check out some new server monitoring tools lately. I’ll miss you hotsanic, I knew you well!
You will not miss hotsanic. i used to use hotsanic a couple of years ago, too, but munin feels much more unix-eque.
Nice. Gives me some packages to use on my web server farms…
Edited 2006-05-07 23:47
I use NetIQ monitoring on approx 130 Windows servers at work. This is a good open source alternative for people who want that manage-it-yourself, free solution.
Does anyone have any first hand experience using these tools?
Un-manned kill or restart scripts are at best a band-aid, not best sysadmin practice and only serve to mask big problems you should be fixing with surgery instead. Blindly restarting is not always the best thing either.