At 22-07-2011 20:59, Eric J Esslinger wrote: > I'm not looking to monitor a massive infrastructure: 3 web sites, 2 mail > servers (pop,imap,submission port, https webmail), 4 dns servers (including > lookups to ensure they're not listening but not talking), and one inbound mx. > A few network points to ping to ensure connectivity throughout my system. > Scheduled notification windows (for example, during work hours I don't want > my phone pinged unless it's everything going offline. Off hours I do. > Secondary notifications if problem persists to other users, or in the event > of many triggers. That sort of thing). Sensitivity settings (If web server 1 > shows down for 5 min, that's not a big deal. Another one if it doesn't > respond to repeated queries within 1 minute is a big deal) A Weekly summary > of issues would be nice. (especially the 'well it was down for a short bit > but we didn't notify as per settings') > I don't have a lot of money to throw at this. I DO have detailed internal > monitoring of our systems but sometimes that is not entirely useful, due to > the fact that there are a few 'single points of failure' within our > network/notification system, not to mention if the monitor itself goes > offline it's not exactly going to be able to tell me about it. (and that > happened once, right before the mail server decided to stop receiving mail). >
Some external monitoring services I could recommend: https://circonus.com/ http://mon.itor.us/ http://pingdom.com/
