Web Server Monitoring?

[admedia]

Anyone use a service to monitor their web server?

I am thinking about signing up for something...
just noticing one of my sites seems kind of flakey right now as I am working on it and would like to know what's going on 24 / 7.

thanks.

[gerbick]

which OS?

[hanratty21]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=url+monitor

I dont know of any particular service, but if you need a URL Monitor (simplest form of measurement around) you should be able to find something here. At least then you can pin down response times at various points throughout the day...it may help in your troubleshooting process.

[argonauta]

Anyone use a service to monitor their web server?

I am thinking about signing up for something...
just noticing one of my sites seems kind of flakey right now as I am working on it and would like to know what's going on 24 / 7.

thanks.

is it a dedicated or shared server?

I've seen that some hosts, in their control panels, like whm got a webserver monitor, though you have to refresh it every time you want some statistics. And well, if you refresh, and nothing comes up, is because your server has problems

[admedia]

Thanks, yea I Googled it around a bit. Just hoping someone had some first hand experience.

Which OS? My host runs Apache on Linux.

Looking for an external service, sign-up... enter url... they monitor... report... %uptime... load-speed... etc...

[argonauta]

also, why don't just ping the server constantly to see if it's up?

and if it's a linux, and you got shell access, log in and do that command that displays all tasks and cpu usage?

[hanratty21]

and if it's a linux, and you got shell access, log in and do that command that displays all tasks and cpu usage?

"top"
-or-
vmstat...sometimes I use this and push the results to a file, like so:
vmstat 5 1000 > yourfilename

[admedia]

is it a dedicated or shared server?

shared, but limited (so I am told).

[admedia]

and if it's a linux, and you got shell access

I am afraid I don't.

[Sybersnake]

you can install something like mint

i own a couple of copies, haven't tried it out yet. too busy and lazy.

[hanratty21]

you can install something like mint

i own a couple of copies, haven't tried it out yet. too busy and lazy.

Mint is not for server health statistics...this is for generic web site stats, like browser types, page hits, etc.

What he is looking for (i believe) is something that's more of a sys admin type of view on actual health of the server and page response times.

RH

[admedia]

What he is looking for (i believe) is something that's more of a sys admin type of view on actual health of the server and page response times.

Yup... I use Urchin for stats and am quite happy with that.

[Jeff2A]

What you're looking for is either a service like Aletra (used in the past, decent, but occasional false notices) or a software package like Nagios.

[Sybersnake]

I use Microsoft Health Monitor (windows only, obviously)

[hanratty21]

I use Microsoft Health Monitor (windows only, obviously)

Strike 2. His host runs apache on linux. He is not looking for web stats.

*ugh*

Admedia - that Aletra service mentioned by Jeff2A looks like it could help.

[Sybersnake]

which flavor of linux, red hat has some monitoring stuff.

If you do not have admin control over the whole server your not going to be able to monitor operating system health status.

[admedia]

What you're looking for is either a service like Aletra (used in the past, decent, but occasional false notices)

I guess you mean Alertra. Aletra was giving me some strange results on google, but eventually I managed to find a really helpful thread where the were discussing Alertra and similar sofware... siteuptime.com looks interesting for some basic monitoring.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Checking all this out now.

Thanks.