monitoring

How to profile PostgreSQL Database?

I want to profile (keep an Eye on) all the activities that goes on in a Database which is in PostgreSQL. Is there any such utility which will help me do this? ...

Best website performance monitor?

I'd thinking about using an external web site performance tool to monitor the load time of our site through time. I found webmetrics.com. Seems pretty ok with email reports etc. Any other suggestions? I'm looking for biggest value / $ :) ...

Reverse SSH tunnel monitor

I've setup a reverse ssh tunnel, using PuTTY, to allow me to VNC into a home computer without having to enable NAT port forwarding. Works great, no problem. I would like to set the tunnel up as a "persistent service" that will connect on boot up and reconnect when dropped. PS. this is on Windows. Exhaustive googling found a few produ...

How to protect/monitor your site from crawling by malicious user

Situation: Site with content protected by username/password (not all controlled since they can be trial/test users) a normal search engine can't get at it because of username/password restrictions a malicious user can still login and pass the session cookie to a "wget -r" or something else. The question would be what is the best solu...

Monit Daemon: Apache-Status connection failure

I'm setting up a cluster of servers for the company I work at, and I'm using Monit to monitor that all server processes are running and working as they should. For Apache monitoring, I wanna use the mod_status feature which is explained here. However, this has turned out quite difficult. As no matter how I configure both Monit and Apach...

How do you monitor your Ruby programming productivity?

Ruby coders: How do you monitor your productivity? I'm curious to know what you use to keep track of how much you do and how well you do it. ...

Track used applications

I've been using Wakoopa recently, and I find it quite amusing. I had no idea ( well I had an idea but never got real data about it ) on how much time I spend in SO until this: So my programming question is: How can I programmatically track the applications being used? My initial though was to use something like "tasklist" co...

Is there a service for monitoring secured WCF endpoints in the same way that HTTP monitoring services do?

Hi all, A service I have in WCF occasionally goes down due a problem with a COM component. While I am troubleshooting I would like to setup another host to make regular calls to this service to monitor availability. It is slightly more complicated that a simple HTTP call though as the service is secured by SSL and WCF authentication (u...

Receiving email notification from smartd (smartmontools)

Hello, To get information about my HDD drive condition, I configured smartmontools daemon (through smartd.conf) like this: dev/sdb -I 194 -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././03|L/../../6/04) \ -m [email protected] -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner Also, by adding “-M test”, I tested email notifications and received test email...

To PerformanceCounter or To Write Custom Monitoring?

I have a Windows service that runs implementations of a framework across multiple threads. Each running instance has several things in common that I need to keep track of, for example, number of items processed, last time an item was processed, etc. On top of this base monitoring data, I'd like to offer functionality in the framework t...

How can Windows API calls to an application/service be monitored?

My company is looking at implementing a new VPN solution, but require that the connection be maintained programatically by our software. The VPN solution consists of a background service that seems to manage the physical connection and a command line/GUI utilty that initiates the request to connect/disconnect. I am looking for a way to "...

How to monitor applications status using .NET?

I have to develop a system that monitors applications runnig in a network. It should collects informations about the status of applications as well as sends alerts in case of problems. I choose to develop this application on .NET. Please indicates me if there is any APIs for that purpose or any ideas that can help me to begin. If you su...

How can I monitor active computers on my network in ASP.NET?

How can I know which machines are alive on the same LAN as my PC using ASP.NET? ...

JVisualVM problem with monitoring JBoss

I want to monitor my application running inside JBoss version 3.2.5 using JVisualVM. I have installed my app to run ass windows serivce. JVisualVM sees my application but i can't see neither thread dump or heap dump. Profiling is not possible either. I get an error dialog with an error icon but with no text. Any ideas? ...

Monitoring Mongrel queue length

I have a Apache + Haproxy + Mongrel Cluster setup. I want to receive alerts whenever my Mongrel queue length gets too high. How to I get the current Mongrel Queue length and make it available for alerting tools such as Monit and Nagios? I know that Haproxy has the information about Mongrel queue as it intelligently sends requests to l...

Monitoring Apache Tomcat applications in production environment

How do you ensure that your applications in production are up and running? How do you alert your team of developers if something goes wrong? I'm asking this because I'm writing a bash script to check for this issue, I'd like to know if there is a smarter or more complete way to achieve this. The idea behind is this command: 'wget -q -O ...

Monitoring CPU usage of IIS7 worker processes.

Hello! What is the best way to monitor IIS7 worker processes and store informations about websites which are using CPU/memory too much? Thanks ...

File / Folder monitoring

Hi; What is the best way to monitor disks against file activities. I mean that getting the full file name (c:\temp\abc.txt), action(created/deleted/modified/renamed), and also the user (user1) and process name (notepad.exe) causing the file (multiple delete) activities. I heard about Some APIs and ShellNotifications but could not use t...

Is there a way to query munin about system performance?

Basically I would just like to run a script that queries munin for certain stats periodically instead of getting alerts or checking a graph page. Some sort of ruby lib for getting perf info would be awesome. ...

Web application monitoring best practices

We are finishing up our web application and planning for deployment. Very important aspect of deployment to production is monitoring the health of the system. Having a small team of developers/support makes it very critical for us to get the early notifications of potential problems and resolve them before they have impact on users. Usi...