Questions tagged [monitoring]
Applications or appliances that observe machines, systems and networks to find problems and notify administrators.
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What do local IT support personnel need from a program that addresses green computing? [closed]
We're beginning to spec out a web-based application that will allow users to manage automatic startup/shutdown and web-based wake-on-lan control for end users throughout departments at our University. ...
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How can I be notified if somone is attempting to hack into a Linux server? [closed]
I'd like to be notified via email if our Linux servers are under any kind of hacking attempt or service attack. Is there some kind of all-in-one solution that can monitor for suspicious activity and ...
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Monitor/analyze/report resource trends on a single server-- perfmon +?
I'm running a handful of video streaming servers (Win2k3 Ent SP2). As my user base is starting to grow, individual users are beginning to report that they are experiencing less-than-ideal service.
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Log transport and aggregation at scale
How're you analysing log files from UNIX/Linux machines? We run several hundred servers which all generate their own log files, either directly or through syslog. I'm looking for a decent solution to ...
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How to monitor a windows log file in real time? [closed]
On windows how can I easily monitor a log file and see updates to the file in real time?
Basically, same functionality like tail -f log_file on Unix systems
Platform: Windows XP/2003/2008 server
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application monitoring tools
we're an ISV about to deploy our SaaS application over the internet to our end users, and are currently looking for an application monitoring solution. In addition to monitoring the usual OS-level ...
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MySQL monitoring tools
What tools do you use to monitor the health of your MySQL server instance? Are they for free or commercial?
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Recomendations for Windows network monitoring
Any recommendations for tools which can monitor an small network (50 Windows PC's mainly running XP - some Vista) and report on network / hardware errors or potential problems?
i.e. a way to be ...
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What are the best tools to deal with many(4+) monitors on multiple machines
We're a trading shop, so we've got users running two(or more machines) with at least two monitors connected to each machine. The traders demand that we only have one mouse and one keyboard for the ...
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Portrait mode widescreen LCD monitor recomendation [closed]
At my office we are planning to deploy widescreen LCD monitors in portrait mode. We bought one for testing (Samsung T220 unpivotable, so we adapted a pivotable support for it) and it doesn't have a ...
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How do I debug an IIS problem where the requests queued suddenly ramps up and the server can't respond?
I have an IIS 6 server serving an application using a mix of classic ASP and ASP.NET.
I'm increasingly getting problems where the number of requests in the ASP.NET requests queue (observed using the ...
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Network monitoring [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
What software would you recommend to monitor a network? We have a main server which acts as a DNS among other services. And we ...
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What are good tools/techniques for monitoring and debugging IIS performance problems?
I'm looking for the best tools/techniques for monitoring IIS performance problems and then debugging them. I'm particularly interested in ASP.NET applications.
This may be a combination of tools or ...
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Can anyone recommend a website monitoring service? [closed]
What are people using for website monitoring services?
I am referring to a service that I can configure specific hits to my site to monitor if the site is up, and how fast it is responding to the ...
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How Would You Monitor Remaining Drive Space for VM Servers?
We've got most of our servers as Virtual Machines. Every once in a while, they get low on disc space. I'm not the guy who manages them, but obviously, I'm affected by this. I want to somehow ...
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Hardware/Network equivalent to Automated Testing? [closed]
I'd like to build out my network infrastructure by using a TDD approach. Specifically, I'm not sure what monitoring we will require, but if something fails, I'd like to be able to fix is then put in ...
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How to Monitor Bandwidth usage in real terms
I have a small (windows) network with a few people on it.
We have internet access via a BT router
Generally things are all fine, but occasionally, we seem to experience a dramatic loss of bandwidth....
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Munin with intermittent clients
I'm currently using munin to monitor a bunch of linux servers (as well as a few WinXP clients). However, munin does its data collection sequentially, and seems to be very susceptible to timing out ...
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ext3 file system performance tuning: what metrics to monitor
I have a high-IO application that is working, and scaling well to date. Over the past few months we've been trying to look down the road and predict where our next bottlenecks will occur. One of ...
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What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
For a more comprehensive list of monitoring tools and their features, check out this Wikipedia page.
As the question states, what are the most commonly used tools used for this task and what are ...
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How should I manage per-user bandwidth?
Users often run bandwidth intensive applications - peer-to-peer applications, video, etc. Do you monitor and/or cap per-user bandwidth?
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