gtop: a system monitoring dashboard for terminal
To view some real time statistics of your server you use top or htop. But there's a new new kid on the block: gtop. It looks pretty nice.
Posts tagged with monitoring
An easy to use server monitor written in PHP
We all dream of servers that need no maintenance at all. But unfortunately in reality this is not the case. Disks can get full, processes can crash, the server can run out of memory... Last week our team released a server monitor package written in PHP that keeps an eye on the health of all your…
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Use sane defaults over exceptions
Freek Lijten, a developer at Schiphol, makes the case for just setting a sane default value instead of throwing an exception when invalid input entered the application.
I didn't think much of this, but I've seen a major drawback lately while working on a site that is a bit bigger than I was used to. With over half a million visitors a week and lots of scrapers, bots and other stuff visiting, these exceptions and fatal errors clog up logging quite a bit. Not to the point that we can't handle the volume, but it generates false positives in monitoring channels and it is something we do not want to act upon anyway.
http://www.freeklijten.nl/2017/01/04/Sane-defaults-over-Exceptions
An easy to install uptime monitor
A few weeks ago we released our uptime and ssl certificate monitor. It's written in PHP and distributed as a Laravel package. If you're familiar with Laravel that's all fine, but if you have no experience with that (kick ass) framework, it's a bit difficult to get started with using our uptime…
An uptime and ssl certificate monitor written in PHP
Today we released our newest package: spatie/laravel-uptime-monitor. It's a powerful, easy to configure uptime monitor. It's written in PHP and distributed as a Laravel package. It will notify you when your site is down (and when it comes back up). You can also be notified a few days before an SSL…
Linux systems performace
Brendan Gregg, a Netflix engineer, gave this talk at this years Percona Data Performance Conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbmEDXq7es0
Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds
In this post, the Netflix Performance Engineering team will show you the first 60 seconds of an optimized performance investigation at the command line, using standard Linux tools you should have available.http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/linux-performance-analysis-in-60s.html