Server Monitoring – world map
Zdeněk Cendra, 4 March 2010, 1:32 PM
Which server monitoring tool do you use?
On today market there are couple quality products. Let’s go to see the best ones, so good to install them on Linux server.
Server monitoring is important to ensure stability, speed and safety of each Linux server.
If you don’t use so far any load monitoring tool, we recommend to choose at least one of bellow mentioned products.
Free tools:
Nagios – famous tool for availability monitoring supporting also load monitoring. Installation is very complicated and service quite expensive, but great extensibilities.
Cacti – performace monitoring built on RRD supporting i.a. performance monitoring and traffic on switches on the basis of SNMP protocol.
Munin – simple general load monitoring tool for concrete servers. It does not support authorisation, more servers and advanced functions.
Zabbix – complex tool for server load monitoring and networks monitoring. Very difficult implementation, but with wide range of settings.
Hotsanic – simple load monitoring tool for concrete servers with no advanced functions. No more develoment of this SW.
Freemium server monitoring:
Bijk.com – complex server monitoring with free version up to 20 servers. Very simple installation, graphs update every 10 seconds, web administration, fitting for one or more servers, many graphs (CPU, Apache, mySQL, Traffic), graphs for more servers – f.e. load for group of servers in one graph.
Paid tool for server monitoring:
ScoutApp.com – good graphs, no supporting Debian Linux, for more servers high price – $100+/month.
ServerDensity.com – basic graphs, simple installation, good price, iPhone client, basic cloud support.
CloudKick.com – basic load graphs, supports known cloud providers, price from $100/month.
Circonus.com – currently just on invitation, basic graphs and trend forecast.
Hyperic.com – complex load monitoring tool, difficult implementation and higher price.
Which monitoring tool do YOU use and why?
Full articleBijk.com – after successful launch
Zdeněk Cendra, 15 January 2010, 3:18 PM
Hello guys,
we have just launched a new web service for Linux server load monitoring – Bijk.com. The basic idea and role of Bijk.com is to make the job of Linux server administrators easier and more effective. At a time when web traffic and the importance and critical nature of applications are increasing, [...]
New features: load monitoring – multiple servers in one graph
Zdeněk Cendra, 3 March 2010, 12:15 PM
Today, we released new feature for Bijk.com – multiple curves of server LOAD in one graph.
Live example:
If you have more servers, for example farm of WWW servers, you can select more servers to one graph and compare LOAD in one graph.
Every server has a different color and you can easilly [...]
New website Bijk.com launched
Zdeněk Cendra, 14 February 2010, 9:32 AM
After several hard days with Photoshop, paper, HTML, CSS, ZEND and other tools, today we have launched our new website Bijk.com
Bijk.com first pricelist:
Unlimited server volume for the first 60 days, and all functions are free to test before purchasing a full Bijk.com plan.
1 server – free of charge
Up To 5 servers – 12 EUR/month
Up [...]
New features and design
Zdeněk Cendra, 26 January 2010, 12:39 PM
Since last week we have been working hard on new functions and a new design of Bijk.com.
Let’s have a quick taste together:
New completed functions – to be released this week:
- Hot-link graphs – create a short URL on any graph, sample: http://www.bijk.com/s/5990.png
- Embed graphs – insert live graphs into your website – simply click to [...]
