bernhard Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 i'm using http://www.phpservermonitor.org/ since some days and its nice. you need a second server of course. are you using any other tools? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teppo Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Mostly using Pingdom and Nagios. Pingdom is for personal projects and as a backup for cases where Nagios itself might've gone down, while Nagios is for anything where I really need a "full-featured" monitoring service. PHP Server Monitor seems like a nice tool, though judging from their documentation (didn't install, so please let me know if I got this wrong) it seems to lack some features I've grown accustomed to: customisable user groups and per-group behaviour, different actions based on time and day/date, service/server specific actions, SNMP support and/or support for custom check logic, etc. If you just want to know whether each specific server/service is up and have a reason to avoid hosted services like Pingdom, StatusCake and UptimeRobot, this does indeed seem like a good tool. For most use cases I'd still recommend a hosted solution, mainly because a) ease of use and b) they pretty much guarantee that the monitor itself won't suddenly die without a notice 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Knight Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 That looks nice. I use Uptime Robot and it's been enlightening how much downtime one of my shared accounts goes down. The email feature IMHO is the most useful part. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernhard Posted August 19, 2016 Author Share Posted August 19, 2016 uptime robot looks like a perfect fit for me! thank you should have asked before installing the phpmonitor ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector Nguyen Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 I'm using NodeQuery to monitor all servers I have. It is SaaS and quite useful to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergio Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 I use https://newrelic.com/ and it's quite nice, even on the free plan (which I use). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teppo Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 10 hours ago, Sérgio said: I use https://newrelic.com/ and it's quite nice, even on the free plan (which I use). Out of interest, which product are you referring to and/or how does one gain access to this free plan? The sign up only speaks of a 14 day free trial, and I can't seem to find this option on their site either I gave their application monitoring a try something like a year ago. Seemed really interesting, but sadly (at least at the time) it wasn't working too well for ProcessWire: knowing that most of my users interact with index.php or that index.php is eating the bulk of my resources wasn't exactly what I'd call "insightful" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjen Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 After trying several SaaS options I've settled with StatusCake (referral) for a year now. They offer free unlimited servers. You can receive an e-mail free (or use several third party integrations) or text (costs a little like 25$ for 100 credits). The only drawback is that you can't select from which location you want to check and you might find the 5 min interval too slow. But hey: it's free Right now I'm thinking of upgrading to get additional 1 minute checking, Locations, SSL Monitoring and Page Speed tests for 20$ a month. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergio Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 (edited) On 8/20/2016 at 6:48 AM, teppo said: Out of interest, which product are you referring to and/or how does one gain access to this free plan? The sign up only speaks of a 14 day free trial, and I can't seem to find this option on their site either 1 Hi Teppo, sorry for the lack of detail. I'm only using their server monitoring service, monitoring two Ubuntu servers running PHP, Apache, etc. and Wordpress and a MySQL server. I installed it a couple of years ago so I don't remember if the pricing info was clear at that time, but AFAIK the server monitoring is still free, as mentioned in this article of Jan, 12. I'm not using it to monitor my servers running ProcessWire yet though. :| Edited August 21, 2016 by Sérgio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernhard Posted August 22, 2016 Author Share Posted August 22, 2016 hi @arjen thank you for that recommendation! looks really great and i like it even more than uptimerobot. only issue is that the sms service does not seem to work with austrian numbers... i created a webhook an 2 different servers and send sms via smstrade.de so thats no issue any more and its even cheaper (0,07€ / sms) i think the free plan will be enough for now but there are enough options to grow in future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjen Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 Glad you like it @bernhard. I'm very happy with it too. They offer a lot for free and their pricing is really reasonable when you grow. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergio Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 I just saw this: http://lifehacker.com/5896830/use-google-docs-to-monitor-your-websites-uptime Use Google Docs to Monitor Your Website's Uptime Have a website and want to know the minute your site is down? This simple Google Docs spreadsheet from Digital Inspiration can email you and monitor your website for free. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kai Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 I changed my hosting to digital ocean and was facing the same problem, how to monitor my virtual server. Started a small discussion over there: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/alert-notification-when-server-is-down User sierracircle pointed out his free script (install via SSH): https://github.com/sierracircle/services-checker/issues/1 The nice thing about this script: It will *restart* your apache and your mysql. Hope that helps too. PS: Trying out the google docs monitor script, correct link is: http://www.labnol.org/internet/website-uptime-monitor/21060/ If that works, it would be extremely helpful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendonKoz Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Hey @teppo, How did you go about managing to configure Nagios to send email notifications? I've been trying to set that up on a Raspberry Pi but need to connect to an external email service in order to send the notifications and haven't quite managed to get that to work yet. As for simple site uptime checkers, I'm currently using UptimeRobot as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesco Bortolussi Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Hi @bernhard For monitoring server status I like to use Munin it gives you a full perspective in one view. Recently have used Zabbix for monitor and email me if something goes wrong. Is very expandable and has a wide variety of plugins. This is more a System/Network monitoring software. The web scenarios features of zabbix are nice for web projects, web services tests too. All this solutions are locally installed and not third party services. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernhard Posted September 13, 2016 Author Share Posted September 13, 2016 thank you @Francesco Bortolussi munin looks really powerful (and overkill for my situation), but that does not sound very trustworthy?! Quote Latest development release 2.99.3 2015-09-08 This is the third "alpha" release before munin 3. Most, but not all functionality is implemented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesco Bortolussi Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 1 hour ago, bernhard said: thank you @Francesco Bortolussi munin looks really powerful (and overkill for my situation), but that does not sound very trustworthy?! I installed the Debian package and has always been very stable. Perhap's if you download Munin you'll see that is a collection of Perl/BAsh scripts(Plugins) and a demon that make calls to a client. You could even create your own plugins I think (Never done one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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