How we improved Oh Dear in 2021
Here's a recap of everything we did in 2021 to make Oh Dear the best all-in-one monitoring service.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Posts tagged with monitoring
A Laravel package to monitor the health of your application original
I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called Laravel Health. As the name implies, this package can be used to monitor the health of your Laravel application.
It offers many checks out of the box, and an easy way to create custom checks. When something is wrong, you can get a notification, or view the status on a dashboard.
The package also offers deep integration with Oh Dear, allowing for even more robust monitoring
I want to tell you all about it in this blog post. Let's go!
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You can now monitor your DNS records via Oh Dear
The past few weeks, I had a lot of fun coding up the new DNS check of Oh Dear. In this blogpost, you'll learn why you should monitor your DNS records and how Oh Dear makes this very easy.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
It was as if someone had "pulled the cables" from their data centers all at once and disconnected them from the Internet.
Read more [blog.cloudflare.com]
Monitoring Laravel Vapor metrics with Grafana Cloud
Once configured, you can see all of the metrics you need to ensure your Vapor app is healthy on one screen.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
How we use ElasticSearch, Kibana and Filebeat to handle our logs
Flare runs on a few different servers that each produce their own logs. In this post, you'll learn how you can combine multiple logs in a single stream.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Selling digital products using Laravel part 10: Miscellaneous interesting tidbits + outro original
We've already covered a lot of ground in this series. Let's finish by highlighting some miscellaneous interesting tidbits.
Why and how you should monitor scheduled tasks original
Oh Dear is the monitoring SaaS that my buddy Mattias and I are running. As you might suspect, our service can monitor the uptime of sites and SSL certificates' health. What sets Oh Dear apart from the competition is that it can also monitor performance and detect broken links and mixed content on any of the pages of your site.
Today, we added a new type of monitoring: scheduled tasks monitoring. Oh Dear can now notify you whenever one of your scheduled tasks has not run or is running too late.
You can get started monitoring your schedule today. We have a free ten-day trial. And when using this coupon code, you'll get 30% off on the first three months when subscribing: MONITOR-ALL-THE-THINGS.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce how you can use scheduled task monitoring in Oh Dear, and how it works under the hood. There were a lot of interesting challenges we had to solve. I hope you're ready to dig it.
Introducing Laravel Schedule Monitor original
Since version 5, Laravel has a built-in scheduler to perform tasks at regular intervals. In normal circumstances, these scheduled tasks will run just fine.
Out of the box, Laravel doesn't offer a way to see the status of the scheduled tasks. When did they run, how long did a task run, which tasks did throw an exception?
Laravel Schedule Monitor is a new Spatie package that monitors all schedule tasks in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Introducing new performance monitoring for your websites
We're excited to announce all Oh Dear users now have access to detailed performance metrics for all of their websites!
Read more [ohdear.app]
How Oh Dear identified a certificate problem at a large CDN provider
Oh Dear performs SSL certificate monitoring in a slightly different than other services, which is why it was able to detect a problem with the SSL certificates of a very large, commercial, CDN provider.
Read more [ohdear.app]
How we identified clients with SSL certificates affected by Let's Encrypt mass-revocation
On the Oh Dear blog, Mattias Geniar shares how he found all certificates that were affected by Let's Encrypt mass revocation of SSL certificates.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Calculate the Carbon output of your website
– www.websitecarbon.com - submitted by Brent
How is your website impacting the planet?
Read more [www.websitecarbon.com]
Making sense of API response times
Mathias Hansen shares how API response time data is used at Geocodio and how to work with this kind of data in MySQL.
The API is the backbone of our business, so over the years we have continously worked to improve and ensure consistent performance. We look at many parameters such as uptime and error rates, but one of the key metrics is API response time. This is how we use this data.
Read more [www.codemonkey.io]
Automatically detect broken links after a deploy
You can use the Oh Dear! API to automatically perform health checks on your app after a deploy.
You can use our API to trigger an on demand run of both the uptime check and the broken links checker. If you add this to, say, your deploy script, you can have near-instant validation that your deploy succeeded and didn't break any links & pages.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Verify that your site is still online after a deploy
At the Oh Dear blog, my colleague Mattias explains how to use our service to verify that your site is still online after a deploy.
You can use our API to trigger an on demand run of both the uptime check and the broken links checker. If you add this to, say, your deploy script, you can have near-instant validation that your deploy succeeded and didn't break any links & pages.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Using Oh Dear! to keep your Varnish cache warm
On the Oh Dear! blog, Mattias Geniar explains how you can use our service to keep your Varnish cache warm.
Slow websites are annoying, right? We sure think so. One common solution is to introduce a caching proxy like Varnish to help cache pages and reduce your server load. The good news is, if you have Oh Dear!, you can let those 2 work together.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Automatic monitoring of Laravel Forge managed sites
Oh Dear!, the monitoring service that my buddy Mattias and I run, now has the ability to auto import sites from Forge.
Forge recently introduced a feature called tags, whichs allows you to add custom tags to any server or site in Forge. We use those tags to determine which sites we should automatically add to your Oh Dear! Account. Every site or server tagged with oh-dear will be added. This allows you to still pick which sites should - or should not - get monitored.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Honeybadger for Laravel Nova
Marcel Pociot recently created a Nova tool for Honeybadger. On their blog Marcel gives some interesting details on how it was created.
In the last weeks, I've been working with the team from Honeybadger on a custom resource tool to add Honeybadger error tracking output to Laravel Nova. It's a great addition to Nova and allows the developer to easily get access to error tracking information that, for example, is associated with specific users.
Read more [blog.honeybadger.io]
