good console bases sys monitors

[Jamon Camisso]

On 08/01/2010 06:19 PM, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> i guess in reddit case they were dealing with millions of requests, the
> system in going to buckle under that kind of demand. few choices when
> you have low mem, a hung server, shitty code (opps did I say that) or
> errant process, reboot or restart seems the best immediate solution to
> maintain a certain quality of service. this  helps fight the fire while
> you're trying to figure out what is going wrong, if there is a pattern
> is will be easier to figure out than those quirky ones that just show up
> randomly.
> 
> you're right it should be fairly easy to write a script to monitor some
> of the things and send out an alert or take some action, i am not sure
> exactly what data can be pulled by those tools for a script to query a
> system. i don't want to run and maintain a lot of scripts that are using
> more cpu to query, parse and poll said services if there is a better
> solution out there, something event driven rather than poll/parse driven.

Monit and daemontools come to mind if there's some action that needs to
be taken. Otherwise, Nagios for monitoring has many different types of
plugins and conditions for sending notifications when threshold foo is
reached.

Jamon
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