Archive for August, 2010

Linux Monitoring is dead.

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Long live Linux monitoring. By which I mean that, unless you are a kernel developer or some other individual with esoteric purposes, having Linux up and running is not the point of your servers.  Your servers are there to DO something, whether that's to serve web pages, answer database requests, or ...

VMware monitoring webinar to watch

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Just a quick note to say that our recording of the webinar we gave on virtualization monitoring VMware monitoring (and XenServer Monitoring) is up on LogicMonitor.com. It's a quick (about 10 minutes) look at why it's particularly important to have a unified monitoring system that covers virtualization infrastructure, the guest OS's ...

3 Simple steps to Apache Monitoring

Friday, August 13th, 2010

If you're reading this, you know you should be monitoring your Apache web servers. (You want to know if they are approaching limits of configured server workers; you want to know how many requests you are serving; you want to ensure availability, etc).  Fortunately, enabling Apache monitoring is quite simple. Make ...