monitoring

Investigating python process to see what's eating CPU

I have a python process (Pylons webapp) that is constantly using 10-30% of CPU. I'll improve/tune logging to get some insight of what's going on, but until then, are there any tools/techniques that allow to see what python process is doing, how many and how busy threads it has etc? Update: configured access log which shows that there ...

.Net Performance/Event Monitoring

I'm looking to do both event tracking/monitoring from applications (i.e. real-time business metrics being emit from applications) and general performance monitoring (i.e. CPU usage, mem Usage etc...). I'd like to be able to have the metrics collected to a central location where they could be reported on etc... Also I'd like to be able to...

How can I monitor a Windows directory for changes?

When a change is made within a directory on a Windows system, I need a program to be notified immediately of the change. Is there some way of executing a program when a change occurs? I'm not a C/C++/.NET programmer, so if I could set up something so that the change could trigger a batch file then that would be ideal. ...

God vs. Monit

Which one to use for process monitoring and why? ...

Monitoring a tcp port

For fun, I've been toying around with writing a load balancer in python and have been trying to figure the best (correct?) way to test if a port is available and the remote host is still there. I'm finding that, once connected, it becomes difficult to tell when the remote host goes down. I've turned keep alive on, but can't get it to r...

What is good/free software for monitoring IIS in Windows Vista?

I always forget to check what's going on in IIS on our webservers, and am wondering: is there some stupid applet or something that always runs locally that I can click on to check event logs and IIS logs on a remote machine? Mark ...

Monitoring system resource use for Java

Hello, I am trying to prepare some statistics on the CPU and Memory usage (over time) of a Java application running on a Windows XP machine. Is there a (free) tool that would let me obtain these statistics? Most of the tools I looked at either profile the existing code for CPU and Heap usage - but do not provide a view the process its...

Introduction to SNMP monitoring

I've been tasked with writing a monitoring program for my company's server software that integrates with zenoss via snmp. To be brief, I can't get anything up off the ground. I think my first goal is to figure out the correct way to write an snmp agent (in any language to start, although it will eventually be in java). Are there any g...

How can I measure the response and loading time of a webpage?

I need to build a windows forms application to measure the time it takes to fully load a web page, what's the best approach to do that? The purpose of this small app is to monitor some pages in a website, in a predetermined interval, in order to be able to know beforehand if something is going wrong with the webserver or the database se...

Use Cacti to Monitor HTTP Status Codes of Request Responses?

I have a proxy script that makes HTTP GET requests to other pages using cURL through PHP. Is it possible to monitor what response codes are returned to those cURL requests, using Cacti? If not Cacti, possible with any similar monitoring system? For example, I want a report that shows how many responses came in each status category, ie,...

Best Squid Logfile Analysis Tool

I have recently been tasked with installing and configuring Squid Proxy server for filtering and monitoring our internal wireless network. I posted recently requesting guidance in selecting a Guidebook for this project and you guys did a grade job there. My next question is which Logfile Analysis tool does the stackoverflow community su...

Windows system monitoring and profiling

I have several dozen 64-bit Windows 2003 servers in a high performance environment with very bursty system utilization. I am looking for a tool (or tools) to monitor and analyze system performance (eg, CPU utilization, bandwidth, etc). This tool can either query servers from a central location (SNMP) or require installation of a compone...

Recommended implementation for a desktop web monitoring client?

Background I have a business idea, one component of which involves a client that would be downloaded & installed by thousands of users via a web page. Application Requirements Version 1: The application must: monitor internet usage on the user's desktop with the following areas monitored: browser used, hours used sites access...

monitoring & alerts for a j2se application

I am designing a J2SE application, and looking for a solution for monitoring and alerts. The requirements are: Objects can report their status and issue alerts when they have problems. Calling some pre-defined methods on specific objects (e.g. to dump their state). Monitoring JVM health, especially memory usage. Preferably access all o...

Monitoring serial port

Hi, I'm using a communications program (Tera Term) to communicate with another computer through a dialup connection. I'll be sending a file with this software, but I would like to monitor the port (like PortMon) to measure the time it takes to transfer the file. Do you know any way of doing it without this software? Thanks a lot ...

Monitoring system for build, source control and integration servers

Do you know about any lightweight system that will monitor servers in terms of disk space, CPU usage, uptime/availability? I'm talking mainly about DB, Subversion, Hudson, integration, qa and build servers. All the advanced server monitoring tools are very hard to configure and use. So I'm looking for something simple. Open source tool...

Free Server Monitoring Service or Software

Looking for a free service, or software to monitor 2 websites, one is hosted on a linux machine, and the other a windows machine (though, shouldn't really matter). Any suggestions? ...

How to activate JMX on my JVM for access with jconsole?

How to activate JMX on a JVM for access with jconsole? ...

Monitoring COM+ objects

I am left with a legacy application that is COM+ based. This application has about 500 registered COM objects that are displayed in the Component Services window. Every couple of days when monitoring using Component Services, we notice the COM+ activated objects grow but the same object in call is 0. Is there a way to write an external p...

Is there any time trace web application?

Is there any time trace web application? I want use it as a tool for monitor my program productivity.(I mean, how many hours I spend on a project) edit: I once notice there is one (like a web twitter with time trace), but I forgot its name. ...