If the web server is hosting PHP or some sort of other scripting language,
why not have your health check hit a page that runs through some checks and
returns good or bad based on the results?

- Justin Lintz


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Simon Lyall <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Currently I have a group of web servers that are behind a load balancer.
> The load balancer has a simple health check which involves it getting a
> specific URL which just grabs a local file and checks the content for
> "ok".
>
> On each machine I have a few scripts that check load, availability
> of the application, another file to see if the server is manually offlined
> and then write "ok" to the static file if everything looks good and "down"
> if any aren't correct.
>
> However the scripts are a bit messy and unreliable so I was wondering what
> sort of thing other people use in this sort of situation?
>
> Thinking further this is probably a subset of my normal monitoring system
> which I shouldn't be duplicating (just having different thresholds to
> different actions).
>
> Our current monitoring system is slated for replacement over the next few
> months. Currently Zabbix is the front-runner (especially since it
> includes graphing which we are very deficient in), do people know if it's
> a good fit for this sort of role?
>
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