monitoring

Windows CPU notification for misbehaving Coldfusion application

I have a web application, written in Coldfusion, which periodically starts using 100% of the server's CPU and crashes the Coldfusion service. Since I have been unable to reproduce the problem myself, I'd like to find a utility which will notify me by email when the CPU usage begins to climb, so I can hop on the server, look at FusionRea...

Infinite loop in FreeBSD

I have a script that constantly segfaults - the problem that I can't solve as segfault is in python libxml bindings - didn't write those. Ok, so in Linux I used to run an inf.loop so that when script dies - it restarts, like so: #!/bin/bash while [ 1 ] do nice -n 19 python server.py sleep 1 done Well, I can't seem to find /bin/bash in...

How to create an automated way of monitoring to see if this application is running

We have a application that should always be running. Does anyone know of a way to create an automated way of monitoring to see if this application is running (possibly using a batch file)? If it is not running, then send an email notification and start the application? ...

How to monitor / log files access to remote folders under windows ?

Hello, I would like to log the name of all the files I access from a particular network share (and the process accessing the the file). What are the solutions in C++ / Win32 preferably ? Kind Regards, Bear ...

How to monitor Windows services

I'm looking for a way to monitor certain Windows services (on Windows Server 2003) and restart if necessary. The services are on different servers and include mainly SQL Server services (e.g. SQL Server Agent), but also some proprietary services. Email alerts sent out if a service has stopped would be very useful as well. ...

Java batch monitoring

We have 50+ Java batch processes that run at different times of the day. They run on a Solaris box, and are started via cron. Currently, the only way we only know if they succeed or fail is by an email generated at the end of each batch process. We have a support team that monitors these emails. Recently, we've had issues with emails...

Hobbit monitoring - no color change until bbretest?

I'm currently monitoring a large network with Hobbit and have been tasked with lowering the amount of false (or at least irrelevant) alarms. At the top of my list are the tests "http" and "conn", initiated by bbtest-net. This command checks ping, ssh, etc, and if for instance a ping times out, it immediately sets the status to red. One m...

Measuring Java execution time, memory usage and cpu load for a code segment

For a particular segment of Java code, I'd like to measure: execution time (most likely thread execution time) memory usage CPU load (specifically attributable to the code segment) I'm a relative Java novice and am not familiar with how this might be achieved. I've been referred to JMX, however I'm not sure how that might be used, an...

Http Request Monitoring Tool

Hi! I would like to know if anybody can recommend an Http Request Monitoring Tool aside from HttpWatch and Firebug. What I want from the tool is for it to show me the time it took the request to arrive at the web server. HttpWatch can show me the network latency and the server times in one result but i want them separately. My goal is to...

Event log monitoring

I need to monitor my Windows Server event logs so that I know if there is a problem with any of my ASP.Net websites (IIS errors, windows login errors etc) - errors that would end up in the event log rather than being handled by my application's error logging. Has anyone had any experience of GFI Events Manager or Event Sentry? Is there ...

Monitoring application calls to DLL

In short: I want to monitor selected calls from an application to a DLL. We have an old VB6 application for which we lost the source code (the company wasn't using source control back then..). This application uses a 3rd party DLL. I want to use this DLL in a new C++ application. Unfortunately the DLL API is only partially documented, ...

Tracking or Notifying DB Changes - Inserts and Updates mostly.

How do I track or get notified whenever a record is inserted or updated in a DB? I would like to notify an external application of the changes in near real time whenever such changes in DB occur. Are there DBMS independent and application programming language independent ways of doing this? If not, then is it possible with MS Access and ...

JBoss Monitoring / Profiling

I have a legacy JBoss 4.0.4/EJB 2.1/PostgreSQL system with zillions of "transaction scripted" procedures as server EJB methods, and many of them have very slow and clumsy execution times due to bad programming practices (like creating temporary tables everytime, etc). Is there something I can plug in JBoss (Aspect-Like) to monitor the e...

How do I find how much SVN traffic I'm using?

At my office we have an SVN server set up and I'd like to know how much traffic it is using. I'm not interested in the bandwidth, just the total number of 1s and 0s the SVN service is sending/receiving. The data will all be going via the svn:// protocol, and the server is running XP pro. ...

.Net SQL Server Database Monitoring - Insert, Update, Delete

Hi, Does anyone know of a way to monitor table record changes in a SQL Server (2005 or 2008) database from a .Net application? It needs to be able to support multiple clients at a time. Each client will "subscribe" when it starts, and "unsubscribe" when it exits. Multiple users could be accessing the system at once and I want to refl...

Perfmon-like for Linux?

In windows there is perfmon to monitor various performances aspects (called counters) of the system. Is there a perfmon-like for Linux? especially, in interested in... CPU usage (total/per process/in kernel) Memory usage (total/per process/in kernel) ...Is it possible to store this information in files for future analysis? ...

How to get "requests per second" for Apache in Linux?

In Windows for ASP, you can get it perfmon, but... How to get "requests per second" for Apache in Linux? ...

How do I monitor what commands my ftp application is sending to a ftp server

Hello all, F Is there a way to monitor the FTP port so that I can know what commands my FTP application is sending to a FTP server? I am using a closed-source FTP client application, which is not working with a closed-source FTP application server. The client and the server are not communicating well with each other, and I would like t...

windows server monitoring

Can anyone recommend monitoring software for a windows environment? We already have monitoring in the sense of resources and availability. I want to know who logged in and changed settings, added files etc. We have outsourced IT and I want to be able to track down all the changes to the system. I'm open to keyboard logging or sessio...

Monitor changes to an arbitrary web page, and subscribe to the changes via RSS.

I've seen services like this before, where you give a URL and you're given an RSS feed of changes to the web page. But google is not turning up anything quite as simple/usable as what I'm remembering. Please submit one such service or solution per answer so that as the landscape changes they can be voted up or down accordingly. (Custo...