[LRUG] How do you monitor your web site?

[Riccardo Tacconi]

Thanks all,

I am plenty of choices now. I find cucumber-nagios pretty interesting but I
wonder if it works without nagios, since I would not like to use nagios. May
be I could write my own simple notifier of just use email. Hoptoad is
interesting too.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, javier ramirez <jramirez at aspgems.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> How do you monitor your web app? There are several solutions, but most of
> them just monitor if the web server is not down or monitor the performance.
> What about monitoring the content of the web site? The server could be ok
> but your application may have an error ("Sorry something went wrong") or
> could display content that should not be there. Do you use anything more
> intelligent than a ping or server metrics?
>
>
> We have several tools in place for monitoring our sites. The stack we
> usually configure is:
>
>     - Check if site is alive and in good shape: Pingdom [1]. You can
> configure easy checks like looking for presence/lack of some literal
>     - Exception notifications: We use the exception notifier [2] plugin.
> Combined with an ugly-but-functional plugin [3] by yours truly you can get
> alerts both by e-mail and twitter when things go wrong. In some projects we
> have tried hoptoad [4]. Pretty good but you have to pay for it. The free
> alternative is good enough for us.
>     - Monitor system processes and restart unresponsive ones: Monit [5]
>     - Performance issues (identify bottlenecks, check trends): New Relic
> [6]
>     - Visitor's behaviour/metrics: Google Analytics [7]
>     - Obscure network monitoring: I know we are using nagios[8] for that,
> just not sure about what for exactly ;)
>     - Database performance: mysql slow query reports [9]
>
> regards,
>
> j
>
> [1] http://pingdom.com
> [2] http://github.com/rails/exception_notification
> [3] http://github.com/javier/mailer_twitterable
> [4] http://hoptoadapp.com
> [5] http://mmonit.com/monit/
> [6] https://rpm.newrelic.com/
> [7] http://analytics.google.com
> [8] http://nagios.com/
> [9] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/slow-query-log.html
>
> --
>
> javier ramírez
>
> ..i do ruby on rails development in madrid, spain, at
> http://www.aspgems.com
>
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>
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