Monitoring tools

[MustangV10]

I'm looking for a free service monitoring service. Something that notifies you if a specific service goes down via SMS or Email. Is there anything like this?

 

[gcawood]

Take a look at Nagios. It's software, not a service, but it's great and very reliable. I would recommend that you consider handling your own monitoring with this application instead of relying on a free 3rd party service.

Good luck!

 

[MustangV10]

Thanks! I'll download and install it now, I desperately need something like this. Of course, when I'm on my computer, I'm not constantly staring at my servers status's so this could be helpful.

 

[MustangV10]

Edit: Where can I actually download the application? I downloaded something from here: http://www.nagios.org/download/core/thanks/ - But there's no clear installer..

 

[steelmanronald06]

Could also try FireScope Unify (http://www.firescope.com), though it isn't free.

 

[MustangV10]

Could also try FireScope Unify (http://www.firescope.com), though it isn't free.

Hmm, well I do really want something free, I may be willing to pay eventually, but not right now.

 

[DaReaper]

Hey

You can try out Cacti http://www.cacti.net/ for monitoring your network or Observium : http://www.observium.org

Both are useful for monitoring your networks.

You can use Ganglia http://ganglia.info for normal server monitoring.

I hope they are useful for you. I just googled them up, didn't try any myself as i feel comfortable with command line.

 

[diegosuse]

Nagios and cacti, bouth works great. I like nagios tree diagram to work with. In our office we have a big screen splited with nagios and cacti. We run gps tracl platform , cloud services, hostings etc. Hope helps