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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by ephextom on Sunday May 04, 2008 @07:02PM (#181032)
We use a monitoring service called Wormly... http://www.wormly.com/

It's run by a friend of ours who used to work at Sitepoint and was frustrated by the limited options for good, affordable, distributed monitoring. He's been running it for over 2 years and is growing fast.

It's a great service and recommended as a YC-style startup worth supporting.

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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by danielha on Sunday May 04, 2008 @06:38PM (#181022)
We use Pingdom (http://pingdom.com)

Simple but it works.

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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by goodkarma on Sunday May 04, 2008 @06:44PM (#181024)
I use two different scripts:

1. dwatch http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/29/surviving-rails-1...

2. a PHP script that accesses a URL on the other server; if the server does not respond as expected, it sends me a SMS and emails the server admin

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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by rrival on Sunday May 04, 2008 @05:13PM (#180977)
To monitor more than uptime and service availability, the high end of this is automated performance measurement analysis by Keynote Systems (keynote.com). They have a lower end product called http://redalert.com/ (formerly its own service) which is comparable to pingdom.
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by chrisbolt on Sunday May 04, 2008 @04:50PM (#180966)
Cacti and Pingdom (www.pingdom.com) for external monitoring.
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by goofygrin on Sunday May 04, 2008 @07:43PM (#181057)
I use Monit on my server to make sure my services are running. It also restarts them if they fail.

I use a free uptime service to make sure that my servers are reachable: http://uptime.openacs.org/uptime/

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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by jjguy on Sunday May 04, 2008 @05:14PM (#180978)
Python script + e-mail to your cell phone number.
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by lvecsey on Sunday May 04, 2008 @11:12PM (#181168)
I've used nagios and before that, ganglia for some monitoring. I've been looking into cacti lately for monitoring qmail message status and an asterisk installation for the number of active channels.

Many of these systems use rrdtool and even though I've used that tool directly before, with Cacti at least its a bit tricky to get familiar with the way the gui and the different templates are interconnected. The look and feel sure does seem polished though.

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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by shafqat on Sunday May 04, 2008 @07:06PM (#181033)
Wow, thanks for all the great feedback. We're going to try Pingdom first. I also liked nagios for its ability to restart services automatically - very cool.

If anyone wants an invite to NewsCred, shoot me a mail: shafqat at newscred.com. Its not much, but thought I should say thanks!

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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by M-MZ on Monday May 05, 2008 @01:07AM (#181228)
Monit! Highly recommended. You can easily set it up to monitor local daemons, watch disk space, memory, external systems and more. Monit can also restart failing daemons.

http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/

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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by natch on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:19AM (#181207)
GroundWork (http://www.groundworkopensource.com/). It uses Nagios under the hood, but I wouldn't want to set up Nagios by hand (without the GroundWork config tools) at a largish site like ours.
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by jbyers on Monday May 05, 2008 @12:03AM (#181200)
Pingdom and Alertra. Alertra has had a perfect record for us for three years, meaning no false reports over that time (as far as we can tell). A bit more expensive, we use a single Alertra alert and multiple Pingdom alerts.
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by thorax on Sunday May 04, 2008 @07:18PM (#181042)
I've been using hosttracker.com for years because they have a 2-site free service.
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by xenoterracide on Sunday May 04, 2008 @04:44PM (#180961)
nagios
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by simianstyle on Sunday May 04, 2008 @08:45PM (#181082)
Is there a way to configure Nagios to send MSM text alerts when your site is down? I haven't fully dove into the documentation yet.
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by hendra on Sunday May 04, 2008 @09:46PM (#181116)
u mean SMS text (not sure what's MSM as you put it). If SMS, yup, we're doing it with Nagios.
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by mkull on Sunday May 04, 2008 @08:51PM (#181086)
rackspace provides support for verifying our sites are operating properly.

in addition we use monit and then finally we use wormly as a catchall

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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by gustaf on Sunday May 04, 2008 @08:09PM (#181065)
Nagios and Pingdom
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by nostrademons on Sunday May 04, 2008 @04:26PM (#180954)
Monit.
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by nreece on Sunday May 04, 2008 @05:36PM (#180984)
Hyperspin
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by ortelius on Sunday May 04, 2008 @04:44PM (#180962)
munin and nagios
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Re:Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server... by blader on Sunday May 04, 2008 @05:40PM (#180991)
pingdom
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