Server Monitoring

[HantsRat]

Hu All

I have asked before but the products were a bit too expensive and in depth. I am basically after a really simple piece of software that can be installed on a server to send alerts if the server goes down or runs out of disk space. Dashboard would be nice as well as email alerts but don't really need all the other features the big products like solarwinds comes with.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[TheD]

Spiceworks, Pulseway and Uptime Robot

[boxst]

http://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/splunk-light.... if you want to analyse / real time report on a bunch of things going on with your server.

[gavsdavs]

boxst said:

http://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/splunk-light.... if you want to analyse / real time report on a bunch of things going on with your server.

Another vote for splunk. Limited only by what you can think of monitoring.

Or alternatively this is nagios with bells on.
http://www.opsview.com/

[TheD]

I was sure the OPs first line was.... "I have asked before but the products were a bit too expensive and in depth"

[gavsdavs]

TheD said:

I was sure the OPs first line was.... "I have asked before but the products were a bit too expensive and in depth"

Splunk is free for 500mb/day. Nagios is free if you want pain in your life.

[TonyRPH]

phpservermon is about as simple as it gets.

You get a nice display of green if everything is ok.

It maintains a graph of server uptime etc.

It can send email alerts.

The first 2 never fail to impress management IMHO. :-)

[TheD]

TonyRPH said:

phpservermon is about as simple as it gets.

You get a nice display of green if everything is ok.

It maintains a graph of server uptime etc.

It can send email alerts.

The first 2 never fail to impress management IMHO. :-)

Forgot about that one. Good shout

[HantsRat]

Pulseway looks good for the price. Nice and simple.

[George111]

PRTG is windows based and free for a small number of sensors, great product and very easy to use.

[bitchstewie]

I'd second PRTG for being free (for a small number of sensors) and very easy to setup and run.

Don't forget dependencies though, sounds kind of obvious but it's easy to sit there assuming all is well because you have no alerts, when all is not well because the thing that would send you alerts has broken.

[StormLoaded]

Taste innovation.. Taste Splunk



Splunk is excellent, though we use Zabbix (.com) for quick/easy monitoring and alerting of basics (cpu, free mem, and space)

[marshalla]

HantsRat said:

Hu All

be installed on a server to send alerts if the server goes down

Errrr....

[rsbmw]

another vote for PRTG, we're using it in an enterprise environment monitoring ~2000 sensors, and apart from the odd WMI spaz out it works well.

[boxst]

StormLoaded said:

Taste innovation.. Taste Splunk


Splunk is excellent.)

[TonyRPH]

marshalla said:

HantsRat said:

Hu All

be installed on a server to send alerts if the server goes down

Errrr....

To cover this I have two monitor servers (one monitors the other as well) and also two SMTP servers (one used by each monitor box), so I'm hopefully covered...

[jammy_basturd]

New Relic can do this and there is a free account. The email alerts don't come through that quickly though...

[RoadRailer]

I've been using StatusCake free for life allegedly and seems to be mopping up all the old pingdom customers.

[rossmc88]

Another one for PRTG monitor. They recently upgraded their free offering from 10 sensors to 100 free sensors

[jjlynn27]

My 'new' place went from splunk to elk stack, mainly as a cost cutting exercise. I have no experience of splunk, but ELK is absolutely fantastic.