Re: [users@httpd] Timers and counters in Apache module

2013-09-27 Thread Peter Phaal
Take a look at mod_sflow, it maintains basic HTTP counters and periodically exports them using the sFlow protocol. The counters you are looking for may already be exported; the following article shows the counter and transaction data exported by mod_sflow: http://blog.sflow.com/2011/01/http.html

Re: [users@httpd] Apache monitoring MPM

2013-03-05 Thread Peter Phaal
Another alternative to consider is mod_sflow and Ganglia, particularly if you want to monitor large Apache clusters: http://blog.sflow.com/2012/10/thread-pools.html On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:31 AM, vishesh kumar linuxtovish...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Vicky , You can use Server-Status handler

Re: [users@httpd] Apache httpd graphical monitor ?

2013-01-19 Thread Peter Phaal
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Rose, John B jbr...@utk.edu wrote: Is there a graphical monitoring tool for Apache httpd that is granular enough you can determine if you need to change configuration settings, such as you need to change values for MaxClients, MinSpareServers,

[users@httpd] Monitoring Apache worker threads

2012-10-06 Thread Peter Phaal
Hi All, If you are currently using mod-status to check the number of worker threads, you might be interested to know that mod-sflow now exports max, idle, active thread statistics (along with standard server and HTTP performance metrics). Having the stats sent as binary values is more efficient,

[users@httpd] Monitoring web cluster performance

2012-02-02 Thread Peter Phaal
Hi All, Anyone using Ganglia to monitor their servers might be interested to know that Ganglia 3.3 now includes support for mod-sflow, providing a great way to monitor the health of an Apache cluster - not just HTTP performance, but also the CPU, memory, disk and network I/O. If you are using

Re: [users@httpd] Centralised logging for access logs.

2011-05-20 Thread Peter Phaal
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Steve Foster stephenfoster1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I am looking at ways i can more reliably centralise apache access logs into a single logging area, i have discounted syslog on the basis of reliabilty and the sheer volume of log entries i need to

[users@httpd] Apache performance metrics

2011-02-18 Thread Peter Phaal
Hi all, Currently Apache doesn't maintain any standard performance counters that could be used to monitor overall workloads. Other application platforms, for example Memcached, maintain a standard set of performance metrics that can be remotely retrieved for performance monitoring. mod-sflow