Posts tagged with: monitoring

I've just noticed a new PSARC case, PSARC 2010/291: zonestat, that I know a lot of people will find very very useful. To quote the summary from the PSARC: This fast-track proposes the addition of a command line tool to facilitate the observation of system resources consumed by Solaris Zones. The tool is specifically designed to observe the following: 1. Memory and cpu utilization of zones. 2. Utilization of resource control limits. 3. Resource utilization versus physical resources and versus configured limits. 4. Various cpu-related resource partitioning schemes, such as processor sets, pools, fair share scheduler, and cpu-caps. 5. Total... Continue reading ►

With the recent outages and performance issues I've been having, I decided to find a tool that I can use to monitor the status of my websites that doesn't actually rely on these sites. The idea being that I can gather enough stats to take back to Site5 showing them how poor things have been, if the problems persist. I needed something that reported not only availability, but performance too. So I turned to my trusty friend, Google, and after some extensive searching, and I happened to find mon.itor.us which seemed to suit my needs, and best of all, it ... Continue reading ►